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Simplicity and Typological Effects in the Emergence of New Englishes : The Noun Phrase in Singaporean and Kenyan English / Thomas Brunner.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] ; 97Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (XIX, 341 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110516593
  • 9783110519549
  • 9783110521801
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 427/.95957 23
LOC classification:
  • PE3502.S51 B78 2017
  • PE3502.S51 B78 2017
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- Part A: New Englishes and the Structure of NPs -- 2. New Varieties of English -- 3. Modelling language change in New Englishes -- 4. Kenyan and Singaporean English -- 5. The English NP — structure and variation -- Part B: NPs in Kenyan English and Singaporean English -- 6. Methodology, corpus handling and statistics -- 7. Studying NP modification in Singaporean English and Kenyan English -- 8. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Appendix A -- Appendix B
Summary: The book is based on a detailed corpus-based investigation of the structure of noun phrases (NPs) in Singaporean English and Kenyan English with the aim of detecting, on the one hand, typological effects from substrate languages and, on the other hand, simplification patterns known to play a role in such varieties.
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- Part A: New Englishes and the Structure of NPs -- 2. New Varieties of English -- 3. Modelling language change in New Englishes -- 4. Kenyan and Singaporean English -- 5. The English NP — structure and variation -- Part B: NPs in Kenyan English and Singaporean English -- 6. Methodology, corpus handling and statistics -- 7. Studying NP modification in Singaporean English and Kenyan English -- 8. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Appendix A -- Appendix B

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The book is based on a detailed corpus-based investigation of the structure of noun phrases (NPs) in Singaporean English and Kenyan English with the aim of detecting, on the one hand, typological effects from substrate languages and, on the other hand, simplification patterns known to play a role in such varieties.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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