Indian Englishes in the Twenty-First Century: Unity and Diversity in Lexicon and Morphosyntax

by Claudia Lange, Sven Leuckert, Asya Yurchenko

English fulfils important intra- and international functions in 21st century India. However, the country's size in terms of area, population, and linguistic diversity means that completely uniform developments in Indian English (IndE) are unlikely. Using sophisticated corpus-linguistic and statistical methods, this Element explores the unity and diversity of IndE by providing studies of selected lexical and morphosyntactic features that characterise...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009454188
• ISBN13: 9781009454186
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"