Table of contents
Abbreviations of the WAVE varieties ix List of maps xi List of maps sorted by features xv List of phenetic networks xxi
Bernd Kortmann and Kerstin Lunkenheimer Introduction 1
Part I: The British Isles
Gunnel Melchers Orkney and Shetland English 15
Jennifer Smith Scottish English and varieties of Scots 21
Markku Filppula Irish English 30
Jennifer Kewley Draskau Manx English 48
Robert Penhallurick Welsh English 58
Graeme Trousdale English dialects in the north of England 70
SusanneWagner Southwest English dialects 78
Peter Trudgill East Anglia 88
Anna Rosen Channel Island English 98
Part II: North America
Susanne Wagner Newfoundland English 109
Alexander Kautzsch Earlier African American Vernacular English 126
Salikoko S. Mufwene Gullah 141
Robert Bayley Chicano English 156
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Part III: The Caribbean and South America
Jeffrey Reaser and Benjamin Torbert English in the Bahamas 169
Stephanie Hackert Bahamian Creole 180
Stacy Denny and Korah Belgrave Barbadian Creole English (Bajan) 197
Andrea Sand Jamaican English 210
Peter L. Patrick Jamaican Creole 222
Angela Bartens San Andres-Providence Creole English 237
Genevieve Escure Belizean Creole 255
Hubert Devonish and Dahlia Thompson Guyanese Creole (Creolese) 265
Bettina Migge The Eastern Maroon Creoles 279
Tonjes Veenstra Saramaccan 291
Donald Winford Sranan 302
Dagmar Deuber and Valerie Youssef Trinidadian Creole 320
Paula Prescod Vincentian Creole 329
Part IV: Africa
Malcolm Awadajin Finney Sierra Leone Krio 343
John Victor Singler Liberian Settler English 358
John Victor Singler Vernacular Liberian English 369
Magnus Huber Ghanaian English 382
Magnus Huber Ghanaian Pidgin English 394
Rotimi Taiwo Nigerian English 410
Nicholas Faraclas Nigerian Pidgin 417 Table of contents
Augustin Simo Bobda Cameroon English 433
Anne Schroder Cameroon Pidgin 441
Josef Schmied Tanzanian English 454 Alfred Buregeya Kenyan English 466 Jude Ssempuuma Ugandan English 475 Susan Fitzmaurice White Zimbabwean English 483 Rajend Mesthrie Black South African English 493 Rajend Mesthrie Indian South African English 501 Sean Bowerman White South African English 511
Part V: South and Southeast Asia
Devyani Sharma Indian English 523 Ahmar Mahboob Pakistani English 531 Michael Meyler Sri Lankan English 540 May L-Y Wong Hong Kong English 548
Verena Schroter Colloquial Singaporean English (Singlish) 562
Stefanie Pillai Colloquial Malaysian English 573
Part VI: Australasia and the Pacific
Pam Peters and Peter Collins Colloquial Australian English 585 Peter Muhlhausler Aboriginal English and associated varieties: shared and unshared features 596
Peter Muhlhausler Norfolk Island/Pitcairn English 620
Rachel Hendery and Sabine Ehrhart Palmerston Island English 628 Kent Sakoda and Jeff Siegel Hawai'i Creole 643 viii Table of contents
Part VII: Isolates
Lisa Bonnici, Michaela Hilbert, and Manfred Krug Maltese English 653
David Britain and Andrea Sudbury Falkland Island English 669
Part VIII: Regional profiles
Bernd Kortmann The British Isles 678
Stephanie Hackert The Caribbean 704
Edgar W. Schneider North America 734
Jeff Siegel Australia Pacific region 764
Rajend Mesthrie Asia 784
Magnus Huber Africa 806
Part IX: Typological profiles
Benedikt Szmrecsanyi LI varieties 826
Kerstin Lunkenheimer L2 varieties 844
Agnes Schneider Pidgins and Creoles 874
PartX: Global profile
Bernd Kortmann and Christoph Wolk Morphosyntactic variation in the anglophone world: a global perspective 906
Index of varieties and languages 937 Index of features 941 Foldout 1: The WAVE feature set Foldout 2: A world map of the WAVE varieties Foldout 3: Network WAVE_all