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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...
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De Gruyter Mouton,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
| Publication Dates: | [2013] |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110280128 http://www.degruyter.com/doc/cover/9783110280128.jpg |
| 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. |
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1 online resource(xxi,946pages) : illustrations Also available in print edition. |
| Bibliography: | approx. 120 maps. |
| ISBN: | 9783110280128（electronic bk.） |
| Index Number: | PE1074 |
| CLC: | H310.9 |
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Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Abbreviations of the WAVE varieties -- List of maps -- List of maps sorted by features -- List of phenetic networks -- Introduction / 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 / Newfoundland English / Earlier African American Vernacular English / Gullah / Chicano English / English in the Bahamas / Bahamian Creole / Barbadian Creole English / Jamaican English / Jamaican Creole / San Andres-Providence Creole English / Belizean Creole / Guyanese Creole / The Eastern Maroon Creoles / Saramaccan / Sranan / Trinidadian Creole / Vincentian Creole / 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 |