The Lesser-Known Varieties of English
An Introduction

Editors

Daniel Schreier, University of Zurich
Daniel Schreier is Professor of English at the University of Zurich. He has taught and lectured in New Zealand, Germany and in the USA. His previous publications include Isolation and Language Change (2003), Consonant Change in English Worldwide (2005) and St Helenian English (2008).

Peter Trudgill, Université de Fribourg, Switzerland
Peter Trudgill is Professor of Sociolinguistics at the University of Agder. He has carried out research on dialects of English, Norwegian, Greek, Albanian and Spanish and has written and edited more than thirty books on sociolinguistics and dialectology including Sociolinguistic Variation and Change (2002), A Glossary of Sociolinguistics (2003) and New Dialect Formation (2004).

Edgar W. Schneider, University of Regensberg
Edgar W. Schneider is Professor and Chair of English Linguistics at the University of Regensburg. He is the editor of the scholarly journal English World-Wide and its associated book series, Varieties of English around the World. His previous publications include Introduction to Quantitative Analysis of Linguistic Survey Data (1996) and Postcolonial English (Cambridge, 2007).

Jeffrey P. Williams, Texas Tech University
Jeffrey P. Williams is Professor and Chair of Sociology at Texas Tech University. He previously taught at the University of Sydney and has conducted fieldwork in Papua New Guinea, the American Southwest and most recently with Montagnard refugees in North Carolina, USA. He was the co-editor of Contact Englishes of the Eastern Caribbean (2003).

Contributors

Daniel Schreier, Peter Trudgill, Edgar W. Schneider, Jeffrey P. Williams, Gunnel Melchers, Peter Sundkvist, Mari C. Jones, Michael Kiefte, Sandra Clarke, Ross Graham, Jeff Reaser, Michael Aceto, Julian Jefferies, David Britain, Andrea Sudbury, Susan Fitzmaurice, Thomas Hoffmann, Lionel Wee, Lisa Lim, Peter Mühlhäusler