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An introduction to international varieties of English /

This study looks at native speaker varieties of English, considering how and why they differ in terms of their pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary and spelling. It shows how the major varieties of English have developed and why similar causes have given rise to different effects.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bauer, Laurie, 1949-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2002.
Subjects:
English language > Dialects.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:0585441936
9780585441931
9781474400459
1474400450
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Accent, dialect, language and variety
  • Home and colony
  • Colonial lag
  • Dialect mixing
  • English becomes a world language
  • The spread of English
  • Models of English
  • English in Scotland and Ireland
  • Vocabulary
  • Borrowing
  • Coining
  • The results
  • Grammar
  • Morphology
  • Syntax
  • Spelling
  • Lexical distributional differences
  • Variation in the system
  • Pronunciation
  • Describing varieties of English
  • Input varieties
  • Influences from contact languages
  • Influences from other colonies
  • Influences from later immigrants
  • Influences from world English
  • Differences between varieties
  • The revenge of the colonised
  • Vocabulary
  • Grammar
  • Pronunciation
  • Becoming independent
  • British Englishes
  • North American Englishes
  • Southern hemisphere Englishes
  • The break-up of English?
  • Standards in the colonies
  • Moving away from the standard in vocabulary
  • Moving away from the standard in grammar
  • Moving away from the standard in pronunciation.

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