The Variability of Current World Englishes

Table of contents

1. Topics in English Linguistics
2. Title Page
3. Copyright Page
4. Foreword
5. Contents
6. Introduction
   1. 1 Perspectives
   2. 2 Chapters 1–4: Methodological issues in distinguishing varieties
   3. 3 Chapters 5–10: Studies of features in particular contexts
   4. References
7. Part 1: Methodological issues in distinguishing varieties
   1. New Englishes and the emergence of the unmarked
      1. 1 Introduction
      2. 2 New Englishes
      3. 3 Markedness
      4. 4 Surveying vowel inventories
      5. 5 Markedness: consonants and clusters
      6. 6 Conclusions
      7. References
   2. Methodological choices in language variation analysis
      1. 1 Introduction
      2. 2 Language Variation Patterns: interpretative possibilities and deciding points
      3. 3 Discussion
      4. 4 Conclusion
      5. References
   3. Globalisation and the transnational impact of non-standard varieties
      1. 1 Introduction
      2. 2 The World Language System and the World System of (Standard and Non-Standard) Englishes
      3. 3 Visual ethnolinguistic repertoires: Jamaican Creole and Nigerian Pidgin in computer-mediated communication
      4. 4 Global linguistic flows and urban spaces: the new multilingualism in the English-speaking world’s global cities
      5. 5 Conclusion
      6. References
   4. The circle of English: an exploration of the “core” and “periphery” of world Englishes
      1. 1 Introduction
      2. 3 Examining the “core” of English
      3. 4 Part-of-speech tagging and lemmatization
      4. 5 The present study: annotating ten corpora
      5. 6 The size of the core and periphery
      6. 7 The grammar of the core and periphery
      7. 8 The semantics of the core and periphery
      8. 9 Discussion
      9. References
8. Part 2: Studies of features in particular contexts
   1. A robust, living substratum: contact and sociolinguistic factors in the evolution of a variety of Black English in Kimberley, South Africa
      1. 1 Introduction
      2. 2 Developing a Linguistic perspective
      3. 3 Selected lexical items
      4. 4 Discourse and register
      5. 5 Conclusion
      6. References
   2. Got in Singapore English
      1. 1 The grammar of got
      2. 2 The use of got
      3. 3 Got as base form: Evidence from SCoRE
      4. 4 Conclusion
      5. References
   3. Diasporic mixing of World Englishes: the case of Jamaican Creole in Toronto
      1. 1 Introduction
      2. 2 Data and Method
      3. 3 Analysis
      4. 4 Towards a conclusion
      5. References
   4. System and society in the evolution of change: the view from Canada
      1. 1 Introduction
      2. 2 Issues in language change in English
      3. 3 The Ontario Communities
      4. 4 Methods
      5. 5 Linguistic analysis – Southern Ontario
      6. 6 Linguistic analysis – Northern Ontario
      7. 7 Conclusions
      8. References
   5. A diachronic study of pseudo-titles and related appositives in the press reportage of British and American newspapers
      1. 1 Methodology
      2. 2 Appositions as Constructions
      3. 3 The Development of APNs over Time
      4. 4 Focus and Emphasis
      5. 5 The Shift in the Placement of Proper Nouns
      6. 6 APNs with Proper Nouns in the First unit
      7. 7 Proper Nouns in the Second units of APNs
      8. 8 Future Developments for APNs
      9. References
   6. The Diffusion of I need you to + infinitive in world Englishes
      1. 1 Introduction
      2. 2 An overview of the data
      3. 3 Qualified conditions in defining uses of I need you to + infinitive
      4. 4 Semantic and grammatical valence in the uses of I need you to + infinitive
      5. 5 Statistical comparison of I need you to + infinitive functions in inner and outer Englishes
      6. 6 Statistical analysis of sociolinguistic variables in the uses of I need you to + infinitive
      7. 7 Discussion
      8. References
9. Index