Varieties of English
- ISBN-10
- 3110523043
- ISBN-13
- 9783110523041
- Series
- Varieties of English
- Category
- Language Arts & Disciplines
- Pages
- 414
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-10-23
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
- Authors
- Alexander Bergs, Laurel Brinton
Description
This volume is one of the first detailed expositions of the history of different varieties of English. It explores language variation and varieties of English from an historical perspective, covering theoretical topics such as diffusion and supraregionalization as well as concrete descriptions of the internal and external historical developments of more than a dozen varieties of English.
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Other editions
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- 2013-05-09
- 329 pages
- Paperback
- Cambridge University Press
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- 2012
- 484 pages
- Paperback
- LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
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