Areal features of the anglophone world
By: edited by Raymond Hickey
Series: Topics in English linguistics -- 80; Topics in English linguistics -- 80.
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Berlin; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 501
ISBN-13: 9783110278842
Subjects: English language; Variation; Linguistic change; Areal linguistics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Case Studies.; title: English in England  -- David Britain ;; title: English and Scots in Scotland  -- Warren Maguire ;; title: English in Ireland  -- Raymond Hickey ;; title: English in the United States  -- Matthew J. Gordon ;; title: English varieties in the Caribbean  -- Jeffrey P. Williams ;; title: English in Africa  -- Thorsten Brato and Magnus Huber ;; title: English in Asia  -- Umberto Ansaldo and Lisa Lim ;; title: Shared features in New Englishes  -- Devyani Sharma ;; title: English in Australia and New Zealand  -- Pam Peters and Kate Burridge; title: Feature complexes.; title: Global features of English vernaculars  -- J. K. Chambers ;; title: Phonological inventories  -- Daniel Schreier ;; title: Negation in varieties of English  -- Lieselotte Anderwald ;; title: Tense and aspect  -- Kerstin Lunkenheimer ;; title: Verbal concord  -- Lukas Pietsch ;; title: Pronominal systems  -- Susanne Wagner ;; title: Reflexive and intensive self-forms  -- Peter Siemund, Georg Maier and Martin Schweinberger ;; title: Vocabulary  -- Stephan E. Gramley ;; title: Pragmatics -- Klaus P. Schneider ;-- Subject index ;-- Name index ;-- Language index.