Bøker i Bamberger Beitraege zur Englischen Sprachwissenschaft / Bamberg Studies in English Linguistics-serien

Ugandan English is influenced by indigenous Ugandan languages. Left dislocation is used more in Ugandan English than in Standard English. In Ugandan English, prepositions are overwhelmingly used like in Standard English. The use of the progressive aspect varies among English speakers with the three indigenous Ugandan languages.

This book is a collection of papers presented at Methods XVI in Tachikawa, Japan. Topics in the papers are about innovation, language change, corpus studies and atlas. Authors from different parts of the world made their contributions.

Presents papers from the 13th International Conference on Methods in Dialectology, held at the University of Leeds in 2008, collects together current research and recent methodological developments in the study of dialects by new and established scholars.

This longitudinal study explores an English dialect contact situation in an L2 setting - an Anglophone community in Japan. It investigates the linguistic changes induced by interaction with speakers of different dialects and reveals that speakers' interpersonal ties are important factors that influence linguistic behaviour.

A collection that unites 21 papers mainly presented at the 21st IAUPE (International Association of University Professors of English) Conference held at the Valetta Campus of the University of Malta in mid-July 2010.

These papers from the 14th International Conference on Methods in Dialectology, held at the University of Western Ontario in 2011, bring together methodological innovations and current research on the study of dialects and language variation, by new and established scholars from different countries working on a number of language varieties.