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The Lesser-Known Varieties of English

This is the ﬁrst ever volume to compile sociolinguistic and historical infor-

mation on lesser-known, and relatively ignored, native varieties of English

around the world. Exploring areas as diverse as the Paciﬁc, South Amer-

ica, the South Atlantic and East and Southern Africa, it shows how these

varieties are as much part of the big picture as major varieties and that their

analysis is essential for addressing some truly important issues in linguistic

theory, such as dialect obsolescence and death, language birth, dialect typol-

ogy and genetic classiﬁcation, patterns of diffusion and transplantation and

contact-induced language change. It also shows how close interwoven ﬁelds

such as social history, contact linguistics and variationist sociolinguistics are

in accounting for their formation and maintenance, providing a thorough

description of the lesser-known varieties of English and their relevance for

language spread and change.

is Associated Professor of English Linguistics at

the University of Zurich. He has taught and lectured in New Zealand,

Germany and the USA. His previous publications include Isolation and

Language Change (

)and

St Helenian English ().

is Adjunct Professor of Sociolinguistics at theUniversity

of Agder. He has carried out research on dialects of English, Norwegian,

Greek, Albanian and Spanish and has written and edited more than thirty

books on sociolinguistics and dialectology including Sociolinguistic Variation

and Change (), A Glossary of Sociolinguistics ()and New-dialect

Formation ().

. is Professor and Chair of English Linguistics at the

University of Regensburg. He is the editor of the scholarly journal English

World-Wide and its associated book series, Varieties of English Around the

World . His previous publications include Introduction to Quantitative Anal-

ysis of Linguistic Survey Data ()and Postcolonial English (Cambridge,

. is Professor of Anthropology and Chair of Soci-

ology, Anthropology and Social Work at Texas Tech University. He pre-

viously taught at the University of Sydney and has conducted ﬁeldwork in

Papua New Guinea, the American Southwest and most recently with Mon-

tagnard refugees in North Carolina, USA. He was the co-editor of Contact

Englishes of the Eastern Caribbean ( ).

), Consonant Change in English Worldwide (

General editor : Merja Kyto (Uppsala University)

Editorial Board : Bas Aarts (University College London), John Algeo

(University of Georgia), Susan Fitzmaurice (Northern Arizona

University), Charles F. Meyer (University of Massachusetts)

STUDIES IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE

The aim of this series is to provide a framework for original studies of English,

both present-day and past. All books are based securely on empirical research,

and represent theoretical and descriptive contributions to our knowledge of

national and international varieties of English, both written and spoken. The

series covers a broad range of topics and approaches, including syntax,

phonology, grammar, vocabulary, discourse, pragmatics and sociolinguistics,

and is aimed at an international readership.

Already published in this series

Christian Mair Inﬁnitival complement clauses in English: a study of syntax in

discourse

Charles F. Meyer Apposition in contemporary English

Jan Firbas Functional sentence perspective in written and spoken communication

Izchak M. Schlesinger Cognitive space and linguistic case

Katie Wales Personal pronouns in present-day English

Laura Wright The development of Standard English,

–

: theories,

descriptions, conﬂicts

Charles F. Meyer English Corpus Linguistics: theory and practice

Stephen J. Nagle and Sara L. Sanders (eds.) English in the Southern United

States

Anne Curzan Gender shifts in the history of English

Kingsley Bolton Chinese Englishes

Irma Taavitsainen and Paivi Pahta (eds.) Medical and scientiﬁc writing in Late

Medieval English

Elizabeth Gordon, Lyle Campbell, Jennifer Hay, Margaret Maclagan, Andrea

Sudbury and Peter Trudgill New Zealand English: its origins and

evolution

Raymond Hickey (ed.) Legacies of colonial English

Merja Kyto, Mats Ryden and Erik Smitterberg (eds.) Nineteenth century

English: stability and change

John Algeo British or American English? A handbook of word and grammar

patterns

Christian Mair Twentieth-century English: history, variation and

standardization

Evelien Keizer The English noun phrase: the nature of linguistic categorization

Raymond Hickey Irish English: history and present-day forms

Gunter Rohdenburg and Julia Schl uter (eds.) One language, two grammars?

Differences between British and American English

Laurel J. Brinton The comment clause in English

Lieselotte Anderwald The morphology of English dialects: verb formation in

non-standard English

Jonathan Culpeper and Merja Kyto Early Modern English dialogues: spoken

interaction as writing

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