Existing accounts of Australian Aboriginal English do not
investigate the significant degree of variation found across the
continent. This book presents the first description of English
spoken on Croker Island, Northern Territory, Australia, in terms of
its history, linguistic features and connections to local
Aboriginal languages. It demonstrates that English on Croker Island
shows an extremely high degree of intra- and inter-speaker
variation and embedding in a longstanding multilingual contact
situation, both of which challenge existing models of variation and
language contact. These results have significant ramifications for
how variation is modelled, for our understanding of how
postcolonial Englishes develop, as well as for the dynamics of
complex contact situations. The book also puts English on Croker
Island into a typological context of World Englishes by
establishing a profile according to the parameters of the World
Atlas of Varieties of English (WAVE). It is of interest to
academics interested in Australian Aboriginal English, language
contact, World Englishes and Australian Aboriginal languages.
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