A Handbook of Varieties of English

The Handbook ,Varieties of English' is by far the most thorough reference work on phonology and the first-ever comprehensive overview of the morphology and syntax of varieties of English in the world. Survey Articles The books feature descriptive survey articles that are authored by widely acclaimed specialists in the field and that cover all main national standard varieties, distinctive regional, ethnic, and social varieties, major contact varieties, as well as major ESL varieties; share a common core, which makes them invaluable research tools for cross-linguistic comparisons; provide information on the historical and cultural backgrounds as well as the current sociolinguistic situations in the respective regions; serve as state-of-the-art reports on major issues in current research. The handbook is an indispensable reference work and research tool for sociolinguists, dialectologists, phonologists, grammarians, typologists, and specialists in contact languages and varieties of English around the world. It is also ideally suited not only for professional academics but also for undergraduate and graduate students. The editors are responsible for the following topics: Kate Burridge/ Bernd Kortmann: Australia / Pacific Archipelagos Bernd Kortmann: British Isles: Morphology and Syntax Rajend Mesthrie: Africa / South and Southeast Asia Edgar W. Schneider: The Americas / Caribbean Clive Upton: British Isles: Phonology

Autorentext
Bernd Kortmann is Professor at the University of Freiburg/Breisgau, Germany. Edgar W. Schneider is Professor at the University of Regensburg, Germany. Kate Burridge is Professor at La Trobe University, Australia. Rajend Mesthrie is Professor at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Clive Upton is Professor at Leeds University, United Kingdom.

Klappentext
Volume 1: Phonology The phonetics and phonology articles usually start out with a survey of the historical and sociolinguistic background that has shaped and characterizes the variety under discussion. Phonological systems and phonetic realizations of the sounds found in a given region are then described systematically and in some detail. To ensure comparability across all contributions of the volume, authors discuss a core set of topics, including vowels (employing Wells' "lexical sets" for identification), consonants, the lexical distribution of phonetic variants (including mergers and related phonological processes), and select suprasegmental characteristics (stress, rhythm, intonation). With detailed and parallel accounts of some 50 varieties of English world-wide, including pidgins and creoles, the information available in this Handbook by far exceeds all earlier sources in comprehensiveness and systematicity of coverage. On the basis of the chapters on the individual varieties authored by more than 70 widely acclaimed specialists in the field, this volume also offers synopses on the phonological variation observable within and across the world regions of English covered in this Handbook, authored by Kate Burridge, Raj Mesthrie, Edgar Schneider and Clive Upton. Volume 2: Morphology and Syntax This volume provides a unique collection of comprehensive up-to-date accounts of the salient grammatical properties of some 50 varieties and groups of closely related varieties of English around the world, including English-based pidgins and creoles. In order to make this volume an interesting and useful tool in comparative grammar reasearch, a set of core issues is addressed in all of the chapters, including tense-aspect-modality systems, auxiliaries, negation, relativization, complementation, agreement, noun phrase structure, pronominal systems, word order and information structure. In some cases and for some regions the chapters in this volume provide the first-ever systematic qualitative survey of the grammatical properties of English as spoken there. The reader may also find information on highly salient features of the vocabulary of any given variety in this volume. On the basis of the chapters on the individual varieties authored by more than 60 widely acclaimed specialists in the field, this volume also offers synopses on the grammatical variation observable within and across the world regions of English covered in this Handbook, authored by Kate Burridge, Bernd Kortmann, Raj Mesthrie and Edgar Schneider.

Zusammenfassung
The Handbook Varieties of English' is by far the most thorough reference work on phonology and the first-ever comprehensive overview of the morphology and syntax of varieties of English in the world. Survey Articles The books feature descriptive survey articles that are authored by widely acclaimed specialists in the field and that cover all main national standard varieties, distinctive regional, ethnic, and social varieties, major contact varieties, as well as major ESL varieties; share a common core, which makes them invaluable research tools for cross-linguistic comparisons; provide information on the historical and cultural backgrounds as well as the current sociolinguistic situations in the respective regions; serve as state-of-the-art reports on major issues in current research. The handbook is an indispensable reference work and research tool for sociolinguists, dialectologists, phonologists, grammarians, typologists, and specialists in contact languages and varieties of English around the world. It is also ideally suited not only for professional academics but also for undergraduate and graduate students. The editors are responsible for the following topics: Kate Burridge/ Bernd Kortmann: Australia / Pacific Archipelagos Bernd Kortmann: British Isles: Morphology and Syntax Rajend Mesthrie: Africa / South and Southeast Asia Edgar W. Schneider: The Americas / Caribbean Clive Upton: British Isles: Phonology

Inhalt
Volume 1: Phonology
Bernd Kortmann and Edgar Schneider General introduction
Bernd Kortmann and Clive Upton (eds.) The British Isles

Bernd Kortmann and Clive Upton Introduction: Varieties of English in the British Isles
Gunnel Melchers The phonology of English spoken in Orkney and Shetland
Jane Stuart-Smith The phonology of Scottish English
Raymond Hickey The phonology of Irish English
Robert Penhallurick The phonology of Welsh English
Joan Beal The phonology of English dialects in the North of England
Urszula Clark The phonology of the English West Midlands
Peter Trudgill The phonology of the dialect of East Anglia
Ulrike Altendorf and Dominic Watt The phonology of the dialects in the South of England
Heinrich Ramisch The phonology of Channel Island English
Clive Upton Received Pronunciation
Peter L. Patrick The phonology of British Creole
Edgar Schneider (ed.) The Americas and Ca…

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