The Mouton World Atlas of Variation in English.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kortmann, Bernd, 1960-

Contributor:

Lunkenheimer, Kerstin.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Variation.

English language.

English language--Dialects.

Linguistic geography.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (971 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter, 2013.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The Mouton World Atlas of Variation in English (WAVE) presents grammatical variation in spontaneous spoken English, mapping 235 features in 48 varieties of English (traditional dialects, high-contact mother tongue Englishes, and indiginized second-language Englishes) and 26 English-based Pidgins and Creoles in eight Anglophone world regions (Africa, Asia, Australia, British Isles, the Caribbean, North America, the Pacific, and the South Atlantic). The analyses of the 74 varieties are based on descriptive materials, naturalistic corpus data, and native speaker knowledge.

Contents:

Abbreviations of the WAVE varieties; List of maps; List of maps sorted by features; List of phenetic networks; Introduction; Part I: The British Isles; Orkney and Shetland English; Scottish English and varieties of Scots; Irish English; Manx English; Welsh English; English dialects in the north of England; Southwest English dialects; East Anglia; Channel Island English; Part II: North America; Newfoundland English; Earlier African American Vernacular English; Gullah; Chicano English; Part III: The Caribbean and South America; English in the Bahamas; Bahamian Creole

Barbadian Creole English (Bajan)Jamaican English; Jamaican Creole; San Andres-Providence Creole English; Belizean Creole; Guyanese Creole (Creolese); The Eastern Maroon Creoles; Saramaccan; Sranan; Trinidadian Creole; Vincentian Creole; Part IV: Africa; Sierra Leone Krio; Liberian Settler English; Vernacular Liberian English; Ghanaian English; Ghanaian Pidgin English; Nigerian English; Nigerian Pidgin; Cameroon English; Cameroon Pidgin; Tanzanian English; Kenyan English; Ugandan English; White Zimbabwean English; Black South African English; Indian South African English

White South African EnglishPart V: South and Southeast Asia; Indian English; Pakistani English; Sri Lankan English; Hong Kong English; Colloquial Singaporean English (Singlish); Colloquial Malaysian English; Part VI: Australasia and the Pacific; Pam Peters and Peter Collins Colloquial Australian English; Aboriginal English and associated varieties: shared and unshared features; Norfolk Island/Pitcairn English; Palmerston Island English; Hawai'i Creole; Part VII: Isolates; Maltese English; Falkland Island English; Part VIII: Regional profiles; The British Isles; The Caribbean; North America

Australia Pacific regionAsia; Africa; Part IX: Typological profiles; L1 varieties; L2 varieties; Pidgins and Creoles; Part X: Global profile; Morphosyntactic variation in the anglophone world: a global perspective; Index of varieties and languages; Index of features; Foldout 1: The WAVE feature set; Foldout 2: A world map of the WAVE varieties; Foldout 3: Network WAVE_all

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Kortmann, Bernd The Mouton World Atlas of Variation in English

ISBN:

9783110280128

3110280124

OCLC:

831121387

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.