TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mailhammer,Robert
TI  - English on Croker Island: The Synchronic and Diachronic Dynamics of Contact and Variation 
T2  - Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] ,
SN  - 9783110707755
AV  - PE3601.Z9 M35 2021
U1  - 427.9/94295 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston
PB  - De Gruyter Mouton
KW  - Aboriginal Australians
KW  - Languages
KW  - Australian languages
KW  - English language
KW  - Dialects
KW  - Australia
KW  - Northern Territory
KW  - Variation
KW  - Languages in contact
KW  - Aboriginal Englisch
KW  - Sprachkontakt
KW  - World English
KW  - FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Australian Aboriginal English
KW  - Australian Languages
KW  - Language Contact
KW  - World Englishes
N1  - Frontmatter --; Acknowledgments --; Contents --; 1 Overview and context --; 2 English on Croker Island: Sociohistorical background --; 3 Phonetics and phonology --; 4 Morphosyntax --; 5 Lexicon and constructions --; 6 The fluidity of variation --; 7 Layers of contact --; 8 Theoretical implications --; 9 Summary and conclusions --; References --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - Existing accounts of Australian Aboriginal English do not investigate the significant degree of variation found across the continent. This book presents the first description of English spoken on Croker Island, Northern Territory, Australia, in terms of its history, linguistic features and connections to local Aboriginal languages. It demonstrates that English on Croker Island shows an extremely high degree of intra- and inter-speaker variation and embedding in a longstanding multilingual contact situation, both of which challenge existing models of variation and language contact. These results have significant ramifications for how variation is modelled, for our understanding of how postcolonial Englishes develop, as well as for the dynamics of complex contact situations. The book also puts English on Croker Island into a typological context of World Englishes by establishing a profile according to the parameters of the World Atlas of Varieties of English (WAVE). It is of interest to academics interested in Australian Aboriginal English, language contact, World Englishes and Australian Aboriginal languages
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110707854
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110707854
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110707854/original
ER  -