Areal Features of the Anglophone World
Raymond Hickey
Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton, 503 pages.
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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 few to determine whether these could be areally based or not.
Contents
Areal features of the anglophone world
Raymond Hickey
I. Case Studies
English in England
David Britain
English and Scots in Scotland
Warren Maguire
English in Ireland
Raymond Hickey
English in the United States
Matthew J. Gordon
English varieties in the Caribbean
Jeffrey P. Williams
English in Africa
Thorsten Brato and Magnus Huber
English in Asia
Umberto Ansaldo and Lisa Lim
Shared features in New Englishes
Devyani Sharma
English in Australia and New Zealand
Pam Peters and Kate Burridge
II. Feature complexes
Global features of English vernaculars
J. K. Chambers
Phonological inventories
Daniel Schreier
Negation in varieties of English
Lieselotte Anderwald
Tense and aspect
Kerstin Lunkenheimer
Verbal concord
Lukas Pietsch
Pronominal systems
Susanne Wagner
Reflexive and intensive self-forms
Peter Siemund, Georg Maier and Martin Schweinberger
Vocabulary
Stephan E. Gramley
Pragmatics
Klaus P. Schneider
Subject index
Name index
Language index
