What are the scope and limits of syntactic variation within and across varieties of English?
To address this question, we investigate well-known syntactic variation between the s …

According to Bauer, the Present Perfect (HAVE+ V-en; henceforth PrPf)“has always been a
somewhat inconvenient case”(1970: 189) in research on English grammar. The elusiveness …

This volume brings together key players in discourse variation research to offer original
analyses of a wide range of discourse-pragmatic variables, such as' like','innit','you get me' …

World Englishes (WE) research has been invested in getting to grips with the diversity of
different Englishes and in making sense of their structural properties. The first research …

The article aims to advance the general understanding of negative concord through a
comparative analysis of nominal and pronominal negative concord in Jamaican and …

Multiple modality is spread across the wider Atlantic region, both within individual varieties
and across variety types. Based on corpus-based evidence, it is argued that first and second …

This book presents the first systematic quantitative study of null subjects not only in British
English, but also in the contact varieties Indian, Hong Kong and Singapore English …

The question how substrate features and extralinguistic conditions interact in shaping
contact varieties is an ongoing debate in the study of world Englishes. The present study …

This study aims to account for some dimensions of the strictness and of what will be called
the 'range'of Negative Concord in Jamaican (also 'Jamaican Creole'or 'Patwa') and in so …

Researchers in dialectometry have begun to explore measurements based on
fundamentally quantitative metrics, often sourced from dialect corpora, as an alternative to …