Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of abbreviations vii
4. Changing English: global and local perspectives xi
5. I. Towards the study of Global English
6. Editors’ Introduction to Part I 3
7. Crisis of the “Outer Circle”? – Globalisation, the weak nation state, and the need for new taxonomies in World Englishes research 5
8. The Ecology of Language and the New Englishes: toward an integrative framework 25
9. II. Ongoing changes in Englishes around the globe
10. Editors’ Introduction to Part II 59
11. The Present Perfect as a core feature of World Englishes 63
12. Innovative structures in the relative clauses of indigenized L2 Asian English varieties 89
13. Morphosyntactic typology, contact and variation: Cape Flats English in relation to other South African Englishes in the Mouton World Atlas of Variation in English 109
14. Omission of direct objects in New Englishes 129
15. The definite article in World Englishes 155
16. Aspects of Verb Complementation in New Zealand Newspaper English 169
17. Extended uses of the progressive form in Inner, Outer and Expanding Circle Englishes 191
18. III. Expanding the horizons: lingua franca, cognitive, and contact-linguistic perspectives
19. Editors’ Introduction to Part III 219
20. A glimpse of ELF 223
21. Lending bureaucracy voice: negotiating English in institutional encounters 255
22. On the relationship between the cognitive and the communal: a complex systems perspective 277
23. Transfer is Transfer; Grammaticalization is Grammaticalization 311
24. Subject index 331
25. Languages and Varieties index 340
26. Author Index 343