Areal features of the anglophone world [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Raymond Hickey

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910779721303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, : De Gruyter Mouton, 2012
• ISBN: 3-11-027942-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (510 p.)
• Collana: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] ; ; 80; Topics in English linguistics, , 1434-3452 ; ; 80
• Altri autori (Persone): HickeyRaymond
• Disciplina: 427
• Soggetti: Linguistic geography; Areal linguistics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Areal features of the anglophone world / Hickey, Raymond -- I. Case Studies -- English in England / Britain, David -- English and Scots in Scotland / Maguire, Warren -- English in Ireland / Hickey, Raymond -- English in the United States / Gordon, Matthew J. -- English varieties in the Caribbean / Williams, Jeffrey P. -- English in Africa / Brato, Thorsten / Huber, Magnus -- English in Asia / Ansaldo, Umberto / Lim, Lisa -- Shared features in New Englishes / Sharma, Devyani -- English in Australia and New Zealand / Peters, Pam / Burridge, Kate -- II. Feature complexes -- Global features of English vernaculars / Chambers, J. K. -- Phonological inventories / Schreier, Daniel -- Negation in varieties of English / Anderwald, Lieselotte -- Tense and aspect / Lunkenheimer, Kerstin -- Verbal concord / Pietsch, Lukas -- Pronominal systems / Wagner, Susanne -- Reflexive and intensive self-forms / Siemund, Peter / Maier, Georg / Schweinberger, Martin -- Vocabulary / Gramley, Stephan E. -- Pragmatics / Schneider, Klaus P. -- Subject index -- Subject index -- Language index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.