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The Mouton world atlas of variation in English / edited by Bernd Kortmann and Kerstin Lunkenheimer.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Berlin ; Boston : Mouton De Gruyter 2012Description: xx, 946 pages, [3] folded leaves of plates : illustrations, color maps ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9783110279887
  • 3110279886
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PE1711 .M68 2012
Scope and content: "The Mouton World Atlas of Variation in English (WAVE) presents grammatical variation in spontaneous spoken English, mapping 235 features in 48 varieties of English (traditional dialects, high-contact mother tongue Englishes, and indiginized second-language Englishes) and 26 English-based Pidgins and Creoles in eight Anglophone world regions (Africa, Asia, Australia, British Isles, the Caribbean, North America, the Pacific, and the South Atlantic). The analyses of the 74 varieties are based on descriptive materials, naturalistic corpus data, and native speaker knowledge"--Back cover.
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Book Book UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة PE1711 .M68 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) C.1 Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط 30020000018338
Book Book UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة PE1711 .M68 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) C.2 Available 30020000018337
Book Book UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة PE1711 .M68 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) C.3 Available 30020000018336
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"The Mouton World Atlas of Variation in English (WAVE) presents grammatical variation in spontaneous spoken English, mapping 235 features in 48 varieties of English (traditional dialects, high-contact mother tongue Englishes, and indiginized second-language Englishes) and 26 English-based Pidgins and Creoles in eight Anglophone world regions (Africa, Asia, Australia, British Isles, the Caribbean, North America, the Pacific, and the South Atlantic). The analyses of the 74 varieties are based on descriptive materials, naturalistic corpus data, and native speaker knowledge"--Back cover.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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