Paula Rautionaho is University Researcher at the University of Eastern Finland.Hanna Parviainen is University Teacher at Tampere University, Finland.Mark Kaunisto is Senior Lecturer in English Linguistics at Tampere University, Finland.Arja Nurmi is a Senior Lecturer of English Translation at Tampere University, Finland.

• Table of contentsForewordKaren Corrigan1. English around the Globe: Local and Global Perspectives on Social and Regional VariationPaula Rautionaho, Hanna Parviainen, Mark Kaunisto, and Arja Nurmi2. Status or Style? Social and Register Variation in Processes of Linguistic Change in the PastTerttu Nevalainen 3. Have to vs. have got to in British and Irish English(es)Markku Filppula4. Was/were Variation with Subject Pronouns We, You, and They in Recent British English – Towards Standard Uses?Paula Rautionaho and Mark Kaunisto5. Regional Syntactic Variability in the Complementation System of Global Varieties of EnglishRaquel Romasanta6. The Processes of Preposition Omission across English Variety TypesHeli Paulasto and Lea Meriläinen7. Colonial Lag or Feature Retention in Postcolonial Varieties of English: The Negative Scalar Conjunction ‘and that too’ in South Asian Englishes and BeyondRobert Fuchs8. My Bad – The Rise of an Innovative Structure through the MediaPatricia Ronan9. Big and Rich Social Networks in Computational SociolinguisticsMikko Laitinen and Masoud Fatemi10. Rhythm in World Englishes – Evidence from a Quantitative Analysis of Co-occurrence Patterns in a Corpus of L1 and L2 Varieties of EnglishSebastian Hoffmann, Sabine Arndt-Lappe, and Peter UhrigIndex

'The volume comprises a topically diverse range of contributions. In addition to the unifying focus on variation and World Englishes, however, all chapters follow a corpus-based, empirical methodology, giving coherence to the book despite its breadth of topics.' Axel Bohmann, Universitat Freiburg

Paula Rautionaho is University Researcher at the University of Eastern Finland.Hanna Parviainen is University Teacher at Tampere University, Finland.Mark Kaunisto is Senior Lecturer in English Linguistics at Tampere University, Finland.Arja Nurmi is a Senior Lecturer of English Translation at Tampere University, Finland.

• Table of contentsForewordKaren Corrigan1. English around the Globe: Local and Global Perspectives on Social and Regional VariationPaula Rautionaho, Hanna Parviainen, Mark Kaunisto, and Arja Nurmi2. Status or Style? Social and Register Variation in Processes of Linguistic Change in the PastTerttu Nevalainen 3. Have to vs. have got to in British and Irish English(es)Markku Filppula4. Was/were Variation with Subject Pronouns We, You, and They in Recent British English – Towards Standard Uses?Paula Rautionaho and Mark Kaunisto5. Regional Syntactic Variability in the Complementation System of Global Varieties of EnglishRaquel Romasanta6. The Processes of Preposition Omission across English Variety TypesHeli Paulasto and Lea Meriläinen7. Colonial Lag or Feature Retention in Postcolonial Varieties of English: The Negative Scalar Conjunction ‘and that too’ in South Asian Englishes and BeyondRobert Fuchs8. My Bad – The Rise of an Innovative Structure through the MediaPatricia Ronan9. Big and Rich Social Networks in Computational SociolinguisticsMikko Laitinen and Masoud Fatemi10. Rhythm in World Englishes – Evidence from a Quantitative Analysis of Co-occurrence Patterns in a Corpus of L1 and L2 Varieties of EnglishSebastian Hoffmann, Sabine Arndt-Lappe, and Peter UhrigIndex

'The volume comprises a topically diverse range of contributions. In addition to the unifying focus on variation and World Englishes, however, all chapters follow a corpus-based, empirical methodology, giving coherence to the book despite its breadth of topics.' Axel Bohmann, Universitat Freiburg

Paula Rautionaho is University Researcher at the University of Eastern Finland.Hanna Parviainen is University Teacher at Tampere University, Finland.Mark Kaunisto is Senior Lecturer in English Linguistics at Tampere University, Finland.Arja Nurmi is a Senior Lecturer of English Translation at Tampere University, Finland.

• Table of contentsForewordKaren Corrigan1. English around the Globe: Local and Global Perspectives on Social and Regional VariationPaula Rautionaho, Hanna Parviainen, Mark Kaunisto, and Arja Nurmi2. Status or Style? Social and Register Variation in Processes of Linguistic Change in the PastTerttu Nevalainen 3. Have to vs. have got to in British and Irish English(es)Markku Filppula4. Was/were Variation with Subject Pronouns We, You, and They in Recent British English – Towards Standard Uses?Paula Rautionaho and Mark Kaunisto5. Regional Syntactic Variability in the Complementation System of Global Varieties of EnglishRaquel Romasanta6. The Processes of Preposition Omission across English Variety TypesHeli Paulasto and Lea Meriläinen7. Colonial Lag or Feature Retention in Postcolonial Varieties of English: The Negative Scalar Conjunction ‘and that too’ in South Asian Englishes and BeyondRobert Fuchs8. My Bad – The Rise of an Innovative Structure through the MediaPatricia Ronan9. Big and Rich Social Networks in Computational SociolinguisticsMikko Laitinen and Masoud Fatemi10. Rhythm in World Englishes – Evidence from a Quantitative Analysis of Co-occurrence Patterns in a Corpus of L1 and L2 Varieties of EnglishSebastian Hoffmann, Sabine Arndt-Lappe, and Peter UhrigIndex

'The volume comprises a topically diverse range of contributions. In addition to the unifying focus on variation and World Englishes, however, all chapters follow a corpus-based, empirical methodology, giving coherence to the book despite its breadth of topics.' Axel Bohmann, Universitat Freiburg