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  • 23 - World Englishes from the Perspective of Dialect Typology

  • from Part III - Linguistics and World Englishes
  • Edited by Daniel Schreier, Universität Zürich, Marianne Hundt, Universität Zürich, Edgar W. Schneider, Universität Regensburg, Germany
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of World Englishes
    Published online:
    16 December 2019
    Print publication:
    02 January 2020, pp 534-558

  • Summary

    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).