The Mouton world atlas of variation in English [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Bernd Kortman and Kerstin Lunkenheimer

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910786111903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, : DeGruyter Mouton, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (971 p.)
• Classificazione: HF 511
• Altri autori (Persone): KortmanBernd; LunkenheimerKerstin
• Disciplina: 427.9
• Soggetti: English language - Variation; English language - Dialects; Linguistic geography
• 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: pt. 1. The British Isles -- pt. 2. North America -- pt. 3. The Caribbean and South America -- pt. 4. Africa -- pt. 5. South and Southeast Asia -- pt. 6. Australasia and the Pacific -- pt. 7. Isolates -- pt. 8. Regional profiles -- pt. 9. Typological profiles -- pt. 10. Global profile.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.