Table of Contents Preface List of Contributors 1. Englishes in flux: Varieties through time and space Tobias Bernaisch, Sofia Rüdiger, & Sven Leuckert 2. Producing linguistic authenticity: A soap opera as a source of historical creole data? Stephanie Hackert & Diana Wengler 3. Short-term diachronic perspectives on the lexis-grammar interface of Indian and Sri Lankan English: The choice between light-verb constructions and simplex verbs Tobias Bernaisch & Joybrato Mukherjee 4. Books about birds: Introducing a corpus of ornithological British English literature (1840-1920) Theresa Neumaier & Sofia Rüdiger 5. It's all for the birds: An analysis of variation and attitudes through time and space Patricia Ronan & Gerold Schneider 6. Predicative as in World Englishes: Meanderings of a multifunctional form Edgar W. Schneider 7.

A new variety in the making: Emerging norms in Namibian English Marion Schulte & Anne Schröder 8. Morphosyntactic variation in St. Maarten English(es) Sarah Buschfeld & Andreas Weilinghoff 9. Ha it was a bit difficult only .More on discourse particles in Indian English Sandra Götz 10. The syntax of Pakistani English: Investigating the (online) use of invariant tags Kathrin Kircili 11. One of the greatest Indian ornithologist : A corpus-based study of number variation in partitives in regional Indian newspaper English Teresa Pham, Christine Günther, Gea Dreschler, Sandra Götz, Kathrin Kircili, Sven Leuckert, Louise Mycock, Theresa Neumaier, & Sofia Rüdiger 12. Variation in bird names in Scots John Kirk 13.

Authentic Englishes.nrw : Digital teaching and learning materials for varieties of English Ilka Mindt 14. Assessing use of transition markers in academic language of young Indian ESL Learners: A corpus-based analysis Lina Mukhopadhyay, Vrishali K. Patil, & Satuluri Sahana 15. English and Marathi in language contact: Lexical borrowing and linguistic meta-awareness in L1 and L2 speakers of Marathi Kranti Doibale, Sachin Labade, & Sven Leuckert Index.