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  • Chapter 13 - Shift Varieties as a Typological Class?

  • from III - Language Interfaces
  • Edited by Raymond Hickey, Universität Duisburg–Essen
  • Book:
    English in Multilingual South Africa
    Published online:
    07 November 2019
    Print publication:
    21 November 2019, pp 265-287

  • Summary

    Recent discussions around the genesis of varieties of English have posed the question of whether there are certain types which in principle form a typological class (e.g. creoles). Relatively little attention has been paid to shift varieties of English, which in terms of the sociolinguistics of language contact and development form a distinct group. When a group shifts to a language it is in contact with, features can be transferred into a new variety of that language which, if maintained by later generations, form a new, focused variety of the target language.