Non-Canonical English Syntax

Sven Leuckert is a Research Associate and Post-Doc at Technische Universität Dresden, Germany. His publications include Topicalization in Asian Englishes (Routledge, 2019) and Indian Englishes in the Twenty-First Century (with Lange, Bernaisch, and Yurchenko, CUP, 2023). Teresa Pham is a Research Assistant and Post-Doc at the University of Vechta, Germany. Her notable publications include Intertextuelle Referenzen auf Shakespeare (2014) and, with Leuckert, she led the scientific network 'Syntax Beyond the Canon', funded by the German Research Foundation.

• 1. Introduction: New Perspectives on Syntax Beyond the Canon Teresa Pham and Sven Leuckert; 2. Talking about (Non-)Canonicity: A Study of Linguistic Terminology Sven Leuckert and Sofia Rüdiger; Part I. Non-Canonical Syntax in Historical Varieties of English: 3. Introduction: Trying to Hit a Moving Target: (Non-)Canonical Word Order in the History of English Marianne Hundt; 4. Full-Verb Inversion in the History of English: Continuation or Emergence of a Non-Canonical Word Order? Gea Dreschler; 5. There's thieves in the house: Existential there-Constructions in Late Modern English Claudia Lange; 6. 'Tis goodly language this, what would it mean? Demonstrative ProTags in the History English Louise Mycock and Sharon Glaas; Part II. Non-Canonical Syntax in Register-Based Varieties of English; 7. Introduction: Different Ways of Saying Different Things: Non-Canonical Syntax in Registers of English Heidrun Dorgeloh and Anja Wanner; 8. The President wide awake at 3:14 AM tweeting about CNN: Informational Non-Canonical Reduced Structures in TV News Broadcasts Douglas Biber, Stacey Wizner, and Randi Reppen; 9. What was it about it that you loved? Clefts in Evaluative Language Teresa Pham; 10. Cognitive Complexity and Non-Canonicity: Zooming in on Particle Placement Christine Günther; Part III. Non-Canonical Syntax in Non-Native Varieties of English: 11. Introduction: Multicultural Communicative Situations: Non-Canonical Syntax in Non-Native Englishes Devyani Sharma; 12. Non-Canonical Syntax in South Asian Varieties of English: A Corpus-Based Study on the Introductory-it Pattern Sandra Götz and Kathrin Kircili; 13. Adverbial Fronting Phenomena in German Learner Language: A Corpus-Based Study Kathrin Kircili; 14. Non-Canonical Syntax in English as a Lingua Franca: Minus-Plurals between Language Contact and Emergent Grammar Theresa Neumaier and Sven Leuckert; 15. Synopsis: Concepts, Approaches, and Methods in Non-Canonical Syntax Sven Leuckert and Teresa Pham.