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The Mouton World Atlas of Variation in English
The Mouton World Atlas of Variation in English (WAVE) presents grammatical variation in spontaneous spoken English, mapping 235 features in 48 varieties of English (traditional dialects, high-contact mother tongue Englishes, and indiginized second-language Englishes) and 26 English-based Pidgins and Creoles in eight Anglophone world regions (Africa, Asia, Australia, British Isles, the Caribbean, North America, the Pacific, and the South Atlantic). The analyses of the 74 varieties are based on descriptive materials, naturalistic corpus data, and native speaker knowledge.
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Introducing the Platform of the Electronic World Atlas of Varieties of English (eWAVE)
eWAVE constitutes an open-access digital resource dedicated to the systematic study of grammatical variation across the global Anglosphere. Developed as a dynamic and evolving research platform, its primary objective is to facilitate fine-grained, comparative analyses of morpho-syntactic phenomena across a diverse spectrum of 76 English varieties, including traditional dialects, high-contact vernaculars, indigenized L2 varieties, and English-derived Pidgins and Creoles. By cataloging expert judgements on 235 features across 12 grammatical domains, eWAVE moves beyond a traditional, L1-centric perspective to offer a more nuanced and globally inclusive mapping of the English language. The database is explicitly designed for interoperability, allowing for direct comparison with other major typological databases like theWorld Atlas of Language Structures (WALS)and theAtlas of Pidgin and Creole Structures (APiCS). As such, eWAVE serves a dual purpose: it is both a synthesis of existing knowledge on global Englishes and a foundational tool designed to generate new research questions in fields ranging from dialectology and sociolinguistics to contact linguistics and syntactic theory. Thus, a principal objective in establishingeWAVEas an openly accessible database was to foster a sense of communal ownership by the global research community. The intention was to position the platform as a dynamic and evolving scholarly tool, subject to ongoing enhancement and expansion. It is envisioned to function not only as a reference point but also as a foundational departure for both future pedagogical approaches and practices, as well as further investigative work on global varieties of English.
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