Vernacular Universals and Language Contacts: Evidence from Varieties of English and BeyondRoutledge |
Contents
An Overview | 1 |
I The Theory of Vernacular Universals | 17 |
Prototypical Vernacular Universals? | 55 |
III Universals and Contact in Varieties of English | 131 |
IV Methodological and Theoretical Perspectives | 263 |
Contributors | 365 |
Name index | 373 |
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African ain’t American English animacy Appalachian English British English British Isles Bungi Cambridge Celtic century Chambers clauses constraints constructions contact-induced change contexts contrast Corpus cross-linguistic default singulars definite article discussion edited English dialects example existential factors Filppula forms glottal stop grammar grammaticalisation guage hiatus hierarchy instance Irish English Kortmann L2 varieties language change language contact language shift linguistic universals lish markedness marker marking Mesthrie morphological Mufwene native negation nonstandard dialects nonstandard varieties nouns ofthe Oxford paradigm pattern percent phonology pidgins plural prevocalic processes pronoun regularisation relative relativisation SArE Schreier Scottish English semantic simplification social sociolinguistic speakers Standard English stative verbs strategies structure subject–verb agreement substrate influence syntactic Syntax Szmrecsanyi Tagliamonte there’s Thomason tion Tristan da Cunha Trudgill typology University Press variable Variation and Change varieties of English vernacular data vernacular universals vowel Zealand English