1st Edition

Evolving Englishes Varieties through Space and Time

Edited By Sven Leuckert, Sofia Rüdiger, Tobias Bernaisch Copyright 2026
268 Pages 42 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

268 Pages 42 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Under the umbrella of evolving Englishes, this edited volume marries studies into the history of the English language with research traditionally rooted in the World Englishes paradigm. Insights into patterns of regional variation are offered with regard to linguistic features that have hitherto primarily been investigated in a small set of first-language varieties, but descriptions of... Read more

List of Contributors
Preface

1. Englishes in flux: varieties through time and space

Tobias Bernaisch, Sofia Rüdiger and Sven Leuckert

2. Producing linguistic authenticity: a soap opera as a source of historical creole data?

Stephanie Hackert and Diana Wengler

3. Short-term diachronic perspectives on the lexis-grammar interface of Indian and Sri Lankan English: the choice between light-verb constructions and simplex verbs

Tobias Bernaisch and Joybrato Mukherjee

4. Books about birds: introducing a corpus of ornithological British English literature (1840–1920)

Theresa Neumaier and Sofia Rüdiger

5. It’s all for the birds: an analysis of variation and attitudes through time and space

Patricia Ronan and Gerold Schneider

6. Predicative as in World Englishes: meanderings of a multifunctional form

Edgar W. Schneider

7. A new variety in the making: emerging norms in Namibian English

Marion Schulte and Anne Schröder

8. Morphosyntactic variation in St. Maarten English(es)

Sarah Buschfeld and Andreas Weilinghoff

9. Ha it was a bit difficult only…: more on discourse particles in Indian English

Sandra Götz

10. The syntax of Pakistani English: investigating the (online) use of invariant tags

Kathrin Kircili

11. One of the greatest Indian ornithologist: a corpus-based study of number variation in partitives in regional Indian newspaper English

Teresa Pham, Christine Günther, Gea Dreschler, Sandra Götz, Kathrin Kircili, Sven Leuckert, Louise Mycock, Theresa Neumaier and Sofia Rüdiger

12. Variation in bird names in Scots

John Kirk

13. Authentic Englishes.nrw: digital teaching and learning materials for varieties of English

Ilka Mindt

14. Assessing use of transition markers in academic language of young Indian ESL Learners: a corpus-based analysis

Lina Mukhopadhyay, Vrishali K. Patil and Satuluri Sahana

15. English and Marathi in language contact: lexical borrowing and linguistic meta-awareness in L1 and L2 speakers of Marathi

Kranti Doibale, Sachin Labade and Sven Leuckert

Index

 

 

 

Biography

Sven Leuckert is a postdoctoral researcher and research associate in English Linguistics at Technische Universität Dresden, Germany.

Sofia Rüdiger is a Guest Professor in English Linguistics at Freie Universität Berlin.

Tobias Bernaisch is Senior Lecturer for English Linguistics at Justus Liebig University Giessen and Vice President/President-Elect of the International Association for World Englishes (IAWE).