Abstract
This chapter provides an overview of Sri Lankan English (SLE) particularities with regard to its sound system. Lexico-grammar has been and continues to be in the limelight of research into SLE – not only because Schneider argues that early traces of structural localisation/indigenisation of a post-colonial English become visible at the interface between lexis and grammar, but also because of the relatively rich body of research for certain lexico-grammatical routines as used also outside the SLE speech community. The structural and pragmatic findings show that SLE boasts many structures that – particularly in combination with one another – make SLE a variety of English clearly distinguishable from others. The contact between English and the local languages of Sri Lanka, i.e. Sinhala and Tamil, also finds reflection in the vocabulary of SLE in the form of a considerable number of borrowings.
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