02771nam 2200601 450 991079247420332120230810000108.03-11-051954-210.1515/9783110521801(CKB)2660000000041047(MiAaPQ)EBC4911734(DE-B1597)473658(OCoLC)1004880243(OCoLC)1011447113(OCoLC)999360147(OCoLC)999648980(DE-B1597)9783110521801(Au-PeEL)EBL4911734(CaPaEBR)ebr11419442(CaONFJC)MIL1024470(EXLCZ)99266000000004104720170822h20172017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierSimplicity and typological effects in the emergence of new Englishes the noun phrase in Singaporean and Kenyan English /Thomas BrunnerBerlin, [Germany] ;Boston, [Massachusetts] :De Gruyter,2017.©20171 online resource (362 pages) illustrations, tablesTopics in English Linguistics,1434-3452 ;Volume 973-11-051659-4 3-11-052180-6 Includes bibliographical references.Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. New Varieties of English -- 3. Modelling language change in New Englishes -- 4. Kenyan and Singaporean English -- 5. The English NP — structure and variation -- 6. Methodology, corpus handling and statistics -- 7. Studying NP modification in Singaporean English and Kenyan English -- 8. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Appendix A -- Appendix B The book is based on a detailed corpus-based investigation of the structure of noun phrases (NPs) in Singaporean English and Kenyan English with the aim of detecting, on the one hand, typological effects from substrate languages and, on the other hand, simplification patterns known to play a role in such varieties. Topics in English linguistics ;Volume 97.Typology (Linguistics)Kenyan English.Language Typology.Noun Phrase Structure.Singaporean English.Typology (Linguistics)415.01Brunner Thomas406635MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910792474203321Simplicity and typological effects in the emergence of new Englishes the noun phrase in Singaporean and Kenyan English3816947UNINA