A Corpus Based View of Kaleidoscopic Noun Phrase in Pakistani English

Pakistani English being a non-native variety has previously been completely dwelling upon the rules and patterns of British English. But with the passage of time it has developed its own distinct features that have been an alluring force to draw the interest of the researchers who have explored the differing patterns of this variety. The present research is an attempt to explore the features related to noun phrase of Pakistani English. Noun phrase has been studied previously through different approaches. Even corpus based research has also been conducted to view its patterns but the present research is different from all those studies in this respect that it uses huge data that is 15 million word corpus, and in its focus to study only the features that have already been explored by E Wave (Electronic World Atlas of the Varieties Of English) but with the gap that results presented in E Wave are based on the observations and opinion of the expert speaker of Pakistani English. This study has found and highlighted the difference between the results of opinion base and corpus based findings.