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This chapter provides an overview of recent innovative approaches that focus on the distributional patterns of linguistic phenomena in dialects across different languages. We set the stage by discussing a number of geographical factors that are assumed in the literature to have a bearing on the structural make-up of different languages and dialects such as world region, altitude, contact with speakers of other languages or dialects, etc. We then move on to sketch the extent to which dialects of a language exhibit common features (e.g., “vernacular universals” à la Chambers 2004) and identify structural dichotomies and continua that are regularly invoked when it comes to explaining the structural diversity of languages, namely, analyticity versus syntheticity, explicitness versus economy, complexity versus simplicity, and innovativeness versus conservativeness, all within the context of geographic space.

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Appendix: Abbreviations of Varieties

Appendix: Abbreviations of Varieties

AbE/AborE:

(Australian) Aboriginal English

AppE:

Appalachian English

AusCs:

Australian Creoles

AusE:

Australian English

AusVE:

Australian Vernacular English

BahE:

Bahamian English

BelC:

Belizean Creole

BlSAfE:

Black South African English

BrE:

British English

ButlE:

Butler English

CamP/E:

Cameroon Pidgin/English

CanE:

Canadian English

ChcE:

Chicano English

ChIsE:

Channel Island English

CollAmE:

Colloquial American English

CollAusE:

CollquialColloquial Australian English

CollSgE:

Colloquial Singapore English

E/R/UAAVE:

Earlier/Rural/Urban African American Vernacular English

EA:

East Anglian English

EAfE:

East African English

FijiE:

Fiji English

FlkE:

Falkland English

GhP/E:

Ghanaian Pidgin/English

HawC/E:

Hawaian Creole/English

HKE:

Hong Kong English

IndE:

Indian English

InSAfE:

Indian South African English

IrE:

Irish English

IsSE/SEAmE:

Isolated South Eastern American English

JamC/E:

Jamaican Creole/English

LibSE:

Liberian Settler English

MalE:

Malaysian English

ManxE:

Manx English

NfldE:

Newfoundland English

NigP/E:

Nigerian Pidgin/English

North:

English dialects in the North of England

NZE:

New Zealand English

O&SE:

Orkney & Shetland English

OzE:

Ozarks English

PakE:

Pakistani English

PhiE:

Philippine English

ScE:

Scottish English, Scots

SE:

English dialects in the South-East of England

SEAmE/IsSE:

South-Eastern US enclave dialects

SgE/SinE:

Singapore English

SolP:

Solomon Islands Pidgin

StHE:

St. Helena English

SurC(s):

Suriname Creoles

SW:

English dialects in the South-West of England

TdCE:

Tristan da Cunha English

Tob.TrnC:

Creoles of Trinidad & Tobago

TobC:

Tobagonian Creole

TP:

Tok Pisin

TrnC:

Trinidadian Creole

WelE:

Welsh English

WhSAfE:

White South African English

WhZimE:

White Zimbabwean English

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Röthlisberger, M., Szmrecsanyi, B. (2019). Dialect Typology: Recent Advances. In: Brunn, S., Kehrein, R. (eds) Handbook of the Changing World Language Map. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73400-2_133-1

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