Grammatical Change in English World-Wide

Abstract

1. Introduction (by Collins, Peter) 2. PART 1. Inner Circle Englishes 3. Diachronic variation in the grammar of Australian English: Corpus-based explorations (by Collins, Peter) 4. At the crossroads of change: Possession, periphrasis, and prescriptivism in Victoria English (by D'Arcy, Alexandra) 5. Do-support in early New Zealand and Australian English (by Hundt, Marianne) 6. The progressive in Irish English: Looking both ways? (by Kirk, John M.) 7. Cross-variety diachronic drifts and ephemeral regional contrasts: An analysis of modality in the extended Brown family of corpora and what it can tell us about the New Englishes (by Mair, Christian) 8. Passives of so-called 'ditransitives' in nineteenth century and present-day Canadian English (by Meyer, Matthias) 9. Dual adverbs in Australian English (by Peters, Pam) 10. The evolution of epistemic marking in West Australian English (by Rodriguez Louro, Celeste) 11. May and might in nineteenth century Irish English and English English (by Hattum, Marije van) 12. The present perfect and the preterite in Australian English: A diachronic perspective (by Yao, Xinyue) 13. PART 2. Outer Circle Englishes 14. Recent diachronic change in the progressive in Philippine English (by Collins, Peter) 15. Linguistic change in a multilingual setting: A case study of quotatives in Indian English (by Davydova, Julia) 16. Patterns of regularisation in British, American and Indian English: A closer look at irregular verbs with t/ed variation (by Clerck, Bernard De) 17. An apparent time study of the progressive in Nigerian English (by Fuchs, Robert) 18. American influence on written Caribbean English: A diachronic analysis of newspaper reportage in the Bahamas and in Trinidad and Tobago (by Hackert, Stephanie) 19. Cultural keywords in context: A pilot study of linguistic acculturation in South Asian Englishes (by Mukherjee, Joybrato) 20. Recent quantitative changes in the use of modals and quasi-modals in the Hong Kong, British and American printed press: Exploring the potential of Factiva(R) for the diachronic investigation of World Englishes (by Noel, Dirk) 21. The development of an extended time period meaning of the progressive in Black South African English (by Rooy, Bertus van) 22. Index