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This book demonstrates, in the context of the Schneiderian thinking and beyond, that world Englishes and creole languages today display interesting sociolinguistic, typological and pedagogic trends and tendencies. These trends and tendencies have been investigated and reported by Thomas Brunner, Thomas Hoffmann, Sarah Buschfeld, Wiebke Ahlers, Aloysius Ngefac, Arthur K. Spears, Kingsley Oluchi Ogwuanyi, Anthony Grant, Mie Hiramoto, Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales, Jakob Leimgruber, Lim Jun Jie, Jessica X. M. Choo, Clifton D. Armstrong, Aya Inoue, David B Frank, Lisa Young, John R Rickford, Paula Prescod, and Christian Go Go. The book is unique and differs from previous works in many ways. First and foremost, it is one of the rare works that overtly bring world Englishes and creole languages together in the same volume, providing an opportunity for current trends to be investigated in the context of the groundbreaking work Edgar Schneider has already carried out in these two subfields of linguistics. Second, some paradigms in world Englishes and creole languages have been tested in different parts of the world with reference to current data and the results are reported in this book. Third, the book serves as a forum for reflections beyond the Schneiderian thinking. Table of ContentsEditors' prefaceAloysius Ngefac, Hans-Georg Wolf & Thomas Hoffmann Laudatio for Edgar W. SchneiderAloysius Ngefac, Hans-Georg Wolf & Thomas Hoffmann World Englishes and creole languages today: IntroductionAloysius Ngefac, Hans-Georg Wolf & Thomas Hoffmann Part One: World Englishes and the Schneiderian Diachronic and Synchronic ThinkingConstruction Grammar meets the Dynamic ModelThomas Brunner & Thomas English around the World: New realities, new models, and the case of Sint MaartenSarah Buschfeld & Wiebke Investigating the current developmental status of Cameroon English in the context ofEdgar Schneider's Dynamic ModelAloysius Ngefac Revisiting African American English history:The significance of African American auxiliariesArthur K. Spears The development of English in Nigeria: From alien to own languageKingsley Oluchi From Malay to Colloquial Singapore English: A case study of sentence-final particle siaMie Hiramoto, Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales, Jakob Leimgruber, Lim Jun Jie & JessicaX. M. Part Two: Creole Languages and the Schneiderian ThinkingThe cline(s) of language contact:Parallel processes and types of innovation in non-creole languagesAnthony Grant Overt vs. covert: Explaining why superstrates yield lexicons and substrates yield grammarsClifton D. Armstrong The use of fo complementation in current Hawai'i CreoleAya Inoue Time reference in Gullah and English comparedDavid B Frank Part Three: Beyond the Schneiderian ThinkingSociolinguistic lessons in A Lesson Before DyingLisa Young & John R. Rickford Inter-variety proximity, orthography choice and implicationsfor mutual intelligibility between English-based creolesPaula Prescod Language policing and non-standard Philippine English in Facebook meme pagesChristian Go Go

World Englishes and Creole Languages Today: Vol. 1: The Schneiderian Thinking and Beyond