Lexical Innovation in World Englishes

<p><strong>Winner of the 2020 ESSE Book Award in English Language and Linguistics</strong></p><p><em>Lexical Innovation in World Englishes</em> contributes to the investigation of World Englishes by offering insights into the lexical developments of selected English varieties and their cross-fertilization potential. Taking a theoretical and empirical approach and focusing on neological formations this book:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>discusses and problematizes different categorizations of English varieties and processes of word formation considering the expansion of English across the world; </li> <p> </p> <li>draws on authentic examples taken from language corpora to gain a finer understanding of the varieties’ transformations and of their reciprocal influences from a lexical perspective;</li> <p> </p> <li>aims to validate general considerations on the lexical features of these varieties of English and test them using corpora.</li> </ul><p>Including eight empirical case studies this innovative text shows the importance of investigating lexical developments to observe the evolution of a variety while arguing for the need to go beyond a purely structuralist approach and to include a broader discursive and sociological perspective. <i>Lexical Innovation in World Englishes</i> is key reading for postgraduate students and researchers in the fields of World Englishes and language varieties.</p>