Sven Leuckert is a postdoctoral researcher and research associate in English Linguistics at Technische Universität Dresden, Germany.Sofia Rüdiger is a Guest Professor in English Linguistics at Freie Universität Berlin.Tobias Bernaisch is Senior Lecturer for English Linguistics at Justus Liebig University Giessen and Vice President/President-Elect of the International Association for World Englishes (IAWE).

• List of ContributorsPreface1. Englishes in flux: varieties through time and spaceTobias Bernaisch, Sofia Rüdiger and Sven Leuckert2. Producing linguistic authenticity: a soap opera as a source of historical creole data?Stephanie Hackert and Diana Wengler3. Short-term diachronic perspectives on the lexis-grammar interface of Indian and Sri Lankan English: the choice between light-verb constructions and simplex verbsTobias Bernaisch and Joybrato Mukherjee4. Books about birds: introducing a corpus of ornithological British English literature (1840–1920)Theresa Neumaier and Sofia Rüdiger5. It’s all for the birds: an analysis of variation and attitudes through time and spacePatricia Ronan and Gerold Schneider6. Predicative as in World Englishes: meanderings of a multifunctional formEdgar W. Schneider7. A new variety in the making: emerging norms in Namibian EnglishMarion Schulte and Anne Schröder8. Morphosyntactic variation in St. Maarten English(es)Sarah Buschfeld and Andreas Weilinghoff9. Ha it was a bit difficult only…: more on discourse particles in Indian EnglishSandra Götz10. The syntax of Pakistani English: investigating the (online) use of invariant tagsKathrin Kircili11. One of the greatest Indian ornithologist: a corpus-based study of number variation in partitives in regional Indian newspaper EnglishTeresa Pham, Christine Günther, Gea Dreschler, Sandra Götz, Kathrin Kircili, Sven Leuckert, Louise Mycock, Theresa Neumaier and Sofia Rüdiger12. Variation in bird names in ScotsJohn Kirk13. Authentic Englishes.nrw: digital teaching and learning materials for varieties of EnglishIlka Mindt14. Assessing use of transition markers in academic language of young Indian ESL Learners: a corpus-based analysisLina Mukhopadhyay, Vrishali K. Patil and Satuluri Sahana15. English and Marathi in language contact: lexical borrowing and linguistic meta-awareness in L1 and L2 speakers of MarathiKranti Doibale, Sachin Labade and Sven LeuckertIndex

Sven Leuckert is a postdoctoral researcher and research associate in English Linguistics at Technische Universität Dresden, Germany.Sofia Rüdiger is a Guest Professor in English Linguistics at Freie Universität Berlin.Tobias Bernaisch is Senior Lecturer for English Linguistics at Justus Liebig University Giessen and Vice President/President-Elect of the International Association for World Englishes (IAWE).

• List of ContributorsPreface1. Englishes in flux: varieties through time and spaceTobias Bernaisch, Sofia Rüdiger and Sven Leuckert2. Producing linguistic authenticity: a soap opera as a source of historical creole data?Stephanie Hackert and Diana Wengler3. Short-term diachronic perspectives on the lexis-grammar interface of Indian and Sri Lankan English: the choice between light-verb constructions and simplex verbsTobias Bernaisch and Joybrato Mukherjee4. Books about birds: introducing a corpus of ornithological British English literature (1840–1920)Theresa Neumaier and Sofia Rüdiger5. It’s all for the birds: an analysis of variation and attitudes through time and spacePatricia Ronan and Gerold Schneider6. Predicative as in World Englishes: meanderings of a multifunctional formEdgar W. Schneider7. A new variety in the making: emerging norms in Namibian EnglishMarion Schulte and Anne Schröder8. Morphosyntactic variation in St. Maarten English(es)Sarah Buschfeld and Andreas Weilinghoff9. Ha it was a bit difficult only…: more on discourse particles in Indian EnglishSandra Götz10. The syntax of Pakistani English: investigating the (online) use of invariant tagsKathrin Kircili11. One of the greatest Indian ornithologist: a corpus-based study of number variation in partitives in regional Indian newspaper EnglishTeresa Pham, Christine Günther, Gea Dreschler, Sandra Götz, Kathrin Kircili, Sven Leuckert, Louise Mycock, Theresa Neumaier and Sofia Rüdiger12. Variation in bird names in ScotsJohn Kirk13. Authentic Englishes.nrw: digital teaching and learning materials for varieties of EnglishIlka Mindt14. Assessing use of transition markers in academic language of young Indian ESL Learners: a corpus-based analysisLina Mukhopadhyay, Vrishali K. Patil and Satuluri Sahana15. English and Marathi in language contact: lexical borrowing and linguistic meta-awareness in L1 and L2 speakers of MarathiKranti Doibale, Sachin Labade and Sven LeuckertIndex

Sven Leuckert is a postdoctoral researcher and research associate in English Linguistics at Technische Universität Dresden, Germany.Sofia Rüdiger is a Guest Professor in English Linguistics at Freie Universität Berlin.Tobias Bernaisch is Senior Lecturer for English Linguistics at Justus Liebig University Giessen and Vice President/President-Elect of the International Association for World Englishes (IAWE).

• List of ContributorsPreface1. Englishes in flux: varieties through time and spaceTobias Bernaisch, Sofia Rüdiger and Sven Leuckert2. Producing linguistic authenticity: a soap opera as a source of historical creole data?Stephanie Hackert and Diana Wengler3. Short-term diachronic perspectives on the lexis-grammar interface of Indian and Sri Lankan English: the choice between light-verb constructions and simplex verbsTobias Bernaisch and Joybrato Mukherjee4. Books about birds: introducing a corpus of ornithological British English literature (1840–1920)Theresa Neumaier and Sofia Rüdiger5. It’s all for the birds: an analysis of variation and attitudes through time and spacePatricia Ronan and Gerold Schneider6. Predicative as in World Englishes: meanderings of a multifunctional formEdgar W. Schneider7. A new variety in the making: emerging norms in Namibian EnglishMarion Schulte and Anne Schröder8. Morphosyntactic variation in St. Maarten English(es)Sarah Buschfeld and Andreas Weilinghoff9. Ha it was a bit difficult only…: more on discourse particles in Indian EnglishSandra Götz10. The syntax of Pakistani English: investigating the (online) use of invariant tagsKathrin Kircili11. One of the greatest Indian ornithologist: a corpus-based study of number variation in partitives in regional Indian newspaper EnglishTeresa Pham, Christine Günther, Gea Dreschler, Sandra Götz, Kathrin Kircili, Sven Leuckert, Louise Mycock, Theresa Neumaier and Sofia Rüdiger12. Variation in bird names in ScotsJohn Kirk13. Authentic Englishes.nrw: digital teaching and learning materials for varieties of EnglishIlka Mindt14. Assessing use of transition markers in academic language of young Indian ESL Learners: a corpus-based analysisLina Mukhopadhyay, Vrishali K. Patil and Satuluri Sahana15. English and Marathi in language contact: lexical borrowing and linguistic meta-awareness in L1 and L2 speakers of MarathiKranti Doibale, Sachin Labade and Sven LeuckertIndex