English on Croker Island : : The Synchronic and Diachronic Dynamics of Contact and Variation / / Robert Mailhammer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
• VerfasserIn: Mailhammer, Robert,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] , 109
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XI, 253 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Acknowledgments --; Contents --; 1 Overview and context --; 2 English on Croker Island: Sociohistorical background --; 3 Phonetics and phonology --; 4 Morphosyntax --; 5 Lexicon and constructions --; 6 The fluidity of variation --; 7 Layers of contact --; 8 Theoretical implications --; 9 Summary and conclusions --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110707854; 9783110750720; 9783110750706; 9783110749434; 9783110754001; 9783110753776; 9783110754117; 9783110753882
• ISSN: 1434-3452
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110707854
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Robert Mailhammer.

Existing accounts of Australian Aboriginal English do not investigate the significant degree of variation found across the continent. This book presents the first description of English spoken on Croker Island, Northern Territory, Australia, in terms of its history, linguistic features and connections to local Aboriginal languages. It demonstrates that English on Croker Island shows an extremely high degree of intra- and inter-speaker variation and embedding in a longstanding multilingual contact situation, both of which challenge existing models of variation and language contact. These results have significant ramifications for how variation is modelled, for our understanding of how postcolonial Englishes develop, as well as for the dynamics of complex contact situations. The book also puts English on Croker Island into a typological context of World Englishes by establishing a profile according to the parameters of the World Atlas of Varieties of English (WAVE). It is of interest to academics interested in Australian Aboriginal English, language contact, World Englishes and Australian Aboriginal languages.