The Typology of Asian Englishes; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; The typology of Asian Englishes; The Asian typology of English; Aspects of the morphosyntactic typology of Hong Kong English; Typological diversity in New Englishes; Thai English; Revisiting English prosody; Index
Summary
When considering the structure of New Englishes which have evolved in - multilingual, mostly post-colonial - contexts of Asia (thus, Asian Englishes), the significant factors to be considered are: 1) the variety/ies of the English lexifier that entered the local context; 2) the nature of transmission of English to the local population; and 3) the local, i.e. substrate, languages of the community in which the New English emerges. This third factor is the focus of the five papers in this volume: they investigate the structure of Asian varieties of English by exploring the relationship between th
