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Areal Features of the Anglophone World / ed. by Raymond Hickey.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] ; 80Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2012]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (502 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110278842
  • 9783110279429
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 427 22/ger
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Areal features of the anglophone world -- I. Case Studies -- English in England -- English and Scots in Scotland -- English in Ireland -- English in the United States -- English varieties in the Caribbean -- English in Africa -- English in Asia -- Shared features in New Englishes -- English in Australia and New Zealand -- II. Feature complexes -- Global features of English vernaculars -- Phonological inventories -- Negation in varieties of English -- Tense and aspect -- Verbal concord -- Pronominal systems -- Reflexive and intensive self-forms -- Vocabulary -- Pragmatics -- Subject index -- Subject index -- Language index
Summary: The intention of the present volume is to unite the research of a range of scholars who have been working on features of non-standard, vernacular English which show an areal distribution, i.e. which cluster geographically across the world. Features common to an area can be due to (i) shared dialect input, (ii) common but separate innovations after settlement, or (iii) area-internal diffusion from one variety to another and/or others. The relative weighting of these factors is an important topic in the book and is a key focus in the 17 chapters. The book is divided into two large blocks, the first one consisting of case studies (8 chapters) and the second with features complexes (9 chapters). The former look at major anglophone locations from an areal perspective while the latter examine linguistic categories and features with a view to determine whether these could be areally based or not.
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Areal features of the anglophone world -- I. Case Studies -- English in England -- English and Scots in Scotland -- English in Ireland -- English in the United States -- English varieties in the Caribbean -- English in Africa -- English in Asia -- Shared features in New Englishes -- English in Australia and New Zealand -- II. Feature complexes -- Global features of English vernaculars -- Phonological inventories -- Negation in varieties of English -- Tense and aspect -- Verbal concord -- Pronominal systems -- Reflexive and intensive self-forms -- Vocabulary -- Pragmatics -- Subject index -- Subject index -- Language index

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The intention of the present volume is to unite the research of a range of scholars who have been working on features of non-standard, vernacular English which show an areal distribution, i.e. which cluster geographically across the world. Features common to an area can be due to (i) shared dialect input, (ii) common but separate innovations after settlement, or (iii) area-internal diffusion from one variety to another and/or others. The relative weighting of these factors is an important topic in the book and is a key focus in the 17 chapters. The book is divided into two large blocks, the first one consisting of case studies (8 chapters) and the second with features complexes (9 chapters). The former look at major anglophone locations from an areal perspective while the latter examine linguistic categories and features with a view to determine whether these could be areally based or not.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Feb 2023)