Simplicity and Typological Effects in the Emergence of New Englishes

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Simplicity and Typological Effects in the Emergence of New Englishes

The Noun Phrase in Singaporean and Kenyan English

Linguistics

Author: Thomas Brunner

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Collection: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]

Language: English

Published by: De Gruyter Mouton

Published on: 24th July 2017

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 360 pages

ISBN: 9783110519549


The book is based on a detailed corpus-based investigation of the structure of noun phrases (NPs) in Singaporean English and Kenyan English with the aim of detecting, on the one hand, typological effects from substrate languages and, on the other hand, simplification patterns known to play a role in such varieties.

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