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23 - World Englishes from the Perspective of Dialect Typology

from Part III - Linguistics and World Englishes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2019

By
Benedikt Szmrecsanyi  and
Melanie Röthlisberger
Edited by
Daniel Schreier ,
Marianne Hundt  and
Edgar W. Schneider
Daniel Schreier
Affiliation:
Universität Zürich
Marianne Hundt
Affiliation:
Universität Zürich
Edgar W. Schneider
Affiliation:
Universität Regensburg, Germany
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Linguistic typology is concerned with classifying human languages and with identifying structural similarities and differences between these languages. Dialectology is the study of typically vernacular and regionally restricted and/or distinctive forms of language. Dialect typology focuses on the intersection between typology and dialectology. In this chapter, we (1) review the set of language-external factors (variety type, world region, exposure to contact) that has been used to categorize World Englishes, (2) summarize the literature about (vernacular) universals, angloversals, and related notions in World Englishes, and (3) discuss work on parameters of structural diversity in World Englishes (analyticity versus syntheticity, complexity versus simplicity).

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typologydialectologydialect typologyarealityuniversalsangloversalsvarioversalsanalyticitysyntheticitycomplexity
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The Cambridge Handbook of World Englishes , pp. 534 - 558
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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