The Major Varieties of English: Papers from MAVEN 97, Växj̈o 20-22 November 1997

accent adjectives Afrikaans American English attitudes AusE Australian English British and American British English Brown Canadian English CDAE CIDE codeswitching communication complement concord constructions context corpora corpus correlate derog diachronic dialects dictionary educational English language ergative verbs ethnic ethnolect example expanding circle FLOB forms frequent gotta grammar hist HTCs idiom Ind sport influence informants interview intransitive language contact lexical items Lindsborg linguistic Macquarie major varieties mandative subjunctive Maori Maori language meaning MetNY Mid-Atlantic modal native speakers newspaper nouns Oxford Pakeha paper patterns periphrastic phonological plural present pronunciation question Quirk References relative clauses relative markers semantic Sidney Greenbaum social sociolinguistic South Africa South African English speech spelling spoken standard style subjunctive Swedish Sydney syntactic Table Trudgill usage variation varieties of English Växjö vocabulary Voicing vowel words Zealand English