Social and Regional Variation in World Englishes

Table of contents

Foreword
Karen Corrigan

1. English around the Globe: Local and Global Perspectives on Social and Regional Variation
Paula Rautionaho, Hanna Parviainen, Mark Kaunisto, and Arja Nurmi

2. Status or Style? Social and Register Variation in Processes of Linguistic Change in the Past
Terttu Nevalainen

3. Have to vs. have got to in British and Irish English(es)
Markku Filppula

4. Was/were Variation with Subject Pronouns We, You, and They in Recent British English - Towards Standard Uses?
Paula Rautionaho and Mark Kaunisto

5. Regional Syntactic Variability in the Complementation System of Global Varieties of English
Raquel Romasanta

6. The Processes of Preposition Omission across English Variety Types
Heli Paulasto and Lea Merilaeinen

7. Colonial Lag or Feature Retention in Postcolonial Varieties of English: The Negative

Scalar Conjunction 'and that too' in South Asian Englishes and Beyond
Robert Fuchs

8. My Bad - The Rise of an Innovative Structure through the Media
Patricia Ronan

9. Big and Rich Social Networks in Computational Sociolinguistics
Mikko Laitinen and Masoud Fatemi

10. Rhythm in World Englishes - Evidence from a Quantitative Analysis of Co-occurrence Patterns in a Corpus of L1 and L2 Varieties of English
Sebastian Hoffmann, Sabine Arndt-Lappe, and Peter Uhrig

Index