Table of Contents
Preface
List of Contributors
1. Englishes in flux: Varieties through time and space
Tobias Bernaisch, Sofia Ruediger, & Sven Leuckert
2. Producing linguistic authenticity: A soap opera as a source of historical creole data?
Stephanie Hackert & Diana Wengler
3. Short-term diachronic perspectives on the lexis-grammar interface of Indian and Sri Lankan English: The choice between light-verb constructions and simplex verbs
Tobias Bernaisch & Joybrato Mukherjee
4. Books about birds: Introducing a corpus of ornithological British English literature (1840-1920)
Theresa Neumaier & Sofia Ruediger
5. It's all for the birds: An analysis of variation and attitudes through time and space
Patricia Ronan & Gerold Schneider
6. Predicative as in World Englishes: Meanderings of a multifunctional form
Edgar W. Schneider
7. A new variety in the making: Emerging norms in Namibian English
Marion Schulte & Anne Schroeder
8. Morphosyntactic variation in St. Maarten English(es)
Sarah Buschfeld & Andreas Weilinghoff
9. Ha it was a bit difficult only...More on discourse particles in Indian English
Sandra Goetz
10. The syntax of Pakistani English: Investigating the (online) use of invariant tags
Kathrin Kircili
11. One of the greatest Indian ornithologist: A corpus-based study of number variation in partitives in regional Indian newspaper English
Teresa Pham, Christine Guenther, Gea Dreschler, Sandra Goetz, Kathrin Kircili, Sven Leuckert, Louise Mycock, Theresa Neumaier, & Sofia Ruediger
12. Variation in bird names in Scots
John Kirk
13. Authentic Englishes.nrw: Digital teaching and learning materials for varieties of English
Ilka Mindt
14. Assessing use of transition markers in academic language of young Indian ESL Learners: A corpus-based analysis
Lina Mukhopadhyay, Vrishali K. Patil, & Satuluri Sahana
15. English and Marathi in language contact: Lexical borrowing and linguistic meta-awareness in L1 and L2 speakers of Marathi
Kranti Doibale, Sachin Labade, & Sven Leuckert
Index
