A robust, living substratum: contact and sociolinguistic factors in the evolution of a variety of Black English in Kimberley, South Africa

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Foreword v
3. Contents vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part 1. Methodological issues in distinguishing varieties
6. New Englishes and the emergence of the unmarked 13
7. Methodological choices in language variation analysis 41
8. Globalisation and the transnational impact of non-standard varieties 65
9. The circle of English: an exploration of the “core” and “periphery” of world Englishes 99
10. Part 2. Studies of features in particular contexts
11. A robust, living substratum: contact and sociolinguistic factors in the evolution of a variety of Black English in Kimberley, South Africa 127
12. Got in Singapore English 147
13. Diasporic mixing of World Englishes: the case of Jamaican Creole in Toronto 169
14. System and society in the evolution of change: the view from Canada 199
15. A diachronic study of pseudo-titles and related appositives in the press reportage of British and American newspapers 239
16. The Diffusion of I need you to + infinitive in world Englishes 257
17. Index 285