Bermudian English : A Sociohistorical and Linguistic Profile.

Intro -- Bermudian English -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- List of tables -- List of figures -- List of maps and pictures -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Bermudian English as a blank spot: Existing research -- 1.2 Research design and aims -- Chapter 2. The theoretical framework of Bermudian English as a contact-based variety -- 2.1 Contact dialectology and dialects in contact -- 2.1.1 Accommodation, its linguistic outcomes, and koinéization -- 2.1.2 New-dialect formation models -- 2.2 Beyond dialects in contact -- 2.2.1 Universals and typologies of English(-based) varieties -- 2.2.2 How to classify Bermudian English? -- 2.2.3 Space, spatiality, migration and mobility -- 2.2.4 The sociolinguistics of mobility -- 2.3 Synthesis -- Chapter 3. Bermuda: 400 years of history -- 3.1 The Bermudian social history: From shore to shore -- 3.1.1 The beginnings of settlement and the early years -- 3.1.2 Navigating the waters during Bermuda's maritime age -- 3.1.3 A new orientation in 19th-century Bermuda -- 3.1.4 20th-century Bermuda and the heyday of tourism -- 3.1.5 A snapshot of contemporary life in Bermuda -- 3.2 The Bermudian sociolinguistic situation -- 3.2.1 The formation and historical development of Bermudian English -- 3.2.2 The contemporary linguistic context of Bermudian English -- Chapter 4. Methodology and data -- 4.1 Fieldwork methodology -- 4.2 The corpus and potential caveats -- Chapter 5. Bermudian English morphosyntax: Qualitative and quantitative analyses -- 5.1 A first descriptive profile of Bermudian English morphosyntax -- 5.1.1 Noun phrase -- 5.1.2 Adjective phrase -- 5.1.3 Prepositional phrase -- 5.1.4 Verb morphology and syntax -- 5.1.5 First insights into Bermudian English morphosyntax -- 5.2 Typological affiliations of Bermudian English: Cross-dialectal profiles.

5.2.1 Methodology -- 5.2.2 Results and discussion of findings -- 5.3 A variationist analysis of selected Bermudian English features -- 5.3.1 Syllable-coda consonant cluster reduction -- 5.3.1.1 Methodology -- 5.3.1.2 Results and discussion of findings -- 5.3.2 Past be leveling -- 5.3.2.1 Methodology -- 5.3.2.2 Results and discussion of findings -- Chapter 6. Conclusion -- 6.1 The cross-dialectal profiles -- 6.2 The feature analyses: Consonant cluster reduction and past be leveling -- 6.3 Bermudian English: Not as blank a spot anymore -- References -- Primary data -- Secondary sources -- Appendices -- Appendix 1. Informants -- Appendix 2. Qualitative typological analysis -- Appendix 3. Quantitative CCR results -- Appendix 4. Quantitative past be leveling results -- Index.

The book traces the origins and development of Bermudian English, so as to situate the variety within the canon of other lesser-known varieties of English, and provides a first in-depth description of its variable morphosyntactic structure.

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