The morphosyntax of varieties of English worldwide: A quantitative perspective

Lingua

Volumn 119, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1643-1663

  Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt ^a   Kortmann, Bernd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Creolistics; Dialectology; Dialectometry; Typology; Variation; World Englishes

Indexed keywords

EID: 68349160668     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2007.09.016     Document Type: Article

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