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Table of Contents 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 http://d-nb.info/1021548731 VI — Table of contents 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 .
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