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This book is a comprehensive but accessible description of English as it is spoken in New Zealand. New Zealand English is one of the youngest native speaker varieties of English, and is the only variety of English where there is recorded evidence of its entire history. It shares some features with other Southern Hemisphere varieties of English such as Australian English and South African English, but is also clearly distinct from these. For the past two decades extensive research has focused on the evolution and ongoing development of the variety. New Zealand English presents the results of this research in an accessible way.

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1. Geography, demography and cultural factors 2. Phonetics and phonology 3. Morphosyntax 4. New Zealand vocabulary and discourse features 5. The origins of New Zealand English 6. Variation within New Zealand English 7. Selected bibliography of works on New Zealand English 8. Sample texts.

New Zealand English

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      Publisher Edinburgh University Press
      Published 7 March 2008
      ISBN-13 9780748625291
      978-0748625291
      ISBN-10 0748625291
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      Grammar, syntax and morphology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book is a comprehensive but accessible description of English as it is spoken in New Zealand. New Zealand English is one of the youngest native speaker varieties of English, and is the only variety of English where there is recorded evidence of its entire history. It shares some features with other Southern Hemisphere varieties of English such as Australian English and South African English, but is also clearly distinct from these. For the past two decades extensive research has focused on the evolution and ongoing development of the variety. New Zealand English presents the results of this research in an accessible way.

      Table of Contents
      1. Geography, demography and cultural factors 2. Phonetics and phonology 3. Morphosyntax 4. New Zealand vocabulary and discourse features 5. The origins of New Zealand English 6. Variation within New Zealand English 7. Selected bibliography of works on New Zealand English 8. Sample texts.

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