Simplicity and Typological Effects in the Emergence of New Englishes
The Noun Phrase in Singaporean and Kenyan English
1st Edition
Published on 24. July 2017
XIX, 341 pages
978-3-11-052180-1 (ISBN)
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The book is based on a detailed corpus-based investigation of the structure of noun phrases (NPs) in Singaporean English and Kenyan English with the aim of detecting, on the one hand, typological effects from substrate languages and, on the other hand, simplification patterns known to play a role in such varieties.
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The Noun Phrase in Singaporean and Kenyan English
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Thomas Brunner
Simplicity and Typological Effects in the Emergence of New Englishes
The Noun Phrase in Singaporean and Kenyan English
Book
07/2017
1st Edition
De Gruyter Mouton
€149.95
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Thomas Brunner , Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany.
Content
- Intro
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Abbreviations
- 1. Introduction
- Part A: New Englishes and the Structure of NPs
- 2. New Varieties of English
- 3. Modelling language change in New Englishes
- 4. Kenyan and Singaporean English
- 5. The English NP - structure and variation
- Part B: NPs in Kenyan English and Singaporean English
- 6. Methodology, corpus handling and statistics
- 7. Studying NP modification in Singaporean English and Kenyan English
- 8. Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
