The analysis of newly or recently emerged grammatical and lexical forms in Colloquial Singapore English is the main objective of this Element. Using corpus, survey, and interview data from different age groups, we shed light on the spread of language change across generations and ethnicities. Existing descriptions of CSE as a high-contact L1 variety of English in the late stages of endonormative stabilisation do not fully capture Singapore's continued multilingual ecology: source languages remain in active use alongside CSE, enabling ongoing cross-linguistic influence. Innovative uses resulting from contact can be observed in apparent and real time. In this volume, we use a range of sources to look at recent changes in the lexicon and grammar of CSE, pointing to a dynamic variety that is difficult to fully capture with existing models of variation. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
This volume presents the first in-depth exploration of Kuwait within the framework of World Englishes. It examines the historical trajectory of English language contact, the contemporary spread of the language, and public attitudes toward its use in the country. Central to the study is the development and analysis of t...
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This article examines the impact of Scandinavian languages on the development of English, with particular attention to the contact between Old English and Old Norse. It argues that this contact led to significant and long-lasting linguistic changes during the Viking period. These changes affected multiple levels of the...
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This study investigates how French secondary school learners of English
as a Foreign Language (EFL)(14 year-olds, levels A1+ to B1+) develop the ability to refer to
the past during social interactions. Based on a corpus of video-recorded peer
interactions, our cross-sectional study integrates tools from an enunc...
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Abstract This paper investigates how speakers of Namibian German, a vital minority language in present-day Namibia, phonologically adapt borrowings. A quantitative study of spoken data from the corpus DNam reveals that nearly every examined phonological feature varies between phonologically non-integrated (e.g., Afrika...
This paper presents an apparent-time analysis of current changes underway in Canadian English, based on the
New Survey of Canadian English
, a questionnaire comprising 85 linguistic variables answered by nearly 14,000
native speakers of English in every region of Canada in 2023–2024. Responses are divided into t...
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Abstract:This article presents the background to, and a description of, a newly developed online database of historical and contemporary lexical data for languages of the region on and around the Bird's Head of New Guinea. In the first public release described here, the OUTOFPAPUA database collects more than 200,000 le...
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