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The Mouton world atlas of variation in English /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kortmann, Bernd, 1960- (Editor ), Lunkenheimer, Kerstin (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, ©2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xxii, 949 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9783110280128
3110280124