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Date: 03-Apr-2012 From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com> Subject: Mapping Unity and Diversity World-Wide: Hundt, Gut (Eds) E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Mapping Unity and Diversity World-Wide
Subtitle: Corpus-Based Studies of New Englishes
Series Title: Varieties of English Around the World G43
Published: 2012
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Editor: Marianne Hundt
Editor: Ulrike Gut
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027274946 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 95.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027274946 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027249036 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 95.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027249036 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027249036 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 100.70
Abstract:
This volume presents a collection of in-depth cross-varietal studies on a broad spectrum of grammatical features in English varieties spoken all over the world. The contributions explore the structural unity and diversity of New Englishes and thus investigate central aspects of dialect evolution and language change. Moreover, this volume offers new insights into the question as to what constrains new dialect formation, and examines universal trends across a wide range of contact situations. The contributions in this volume further study the possibilities and limitations of quantitative and qualitative corpus analyses in comparative studies of New Englishes and exemplify novel approaches, e.g. the contribution of syntactic corpus annotation (tagging and parsing) to the description of New English structures; the use (and limitations) of web-derived data as an additional source of information; and the possibility to complement corpus data with evidence from sociolinguistic fieldwork.
Linguistic Field(s):
Computational Linguistics
Historical Linguistics
Sociolinguistics
Syntax
Text/Corpus Linguistics
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