The Dialects of English series provides concise, accessible, authoritative, and up-to-date documentation for varieties of English, including English-based pidgins and creoles, from all over the English-speaking world. Written by experts who have conducted first-hand research, the volumes are the most obvious starting point for readers who would like to know more about a particular regional, urban or ethnic variety. The volumes follow a common structure, covering the context in which one clearly defined variety of English (or a number of closely related varieties) has been established as well as their phonetics and phonology, morphosyntax, lexis and social history. Each volume concludes with an annotated bibliography and some sample texts.

This book tells the story of the language of the Bounty mutineers and their Polynesian consorts that developed on remote Pitcairn Island in the late 18th century. Most of their descendants subsequently relocated to Norfolk Island. It is an in-depth study of the complex linguistic, ecological and sociohistorical forces that have been involved in the formation and subsequent development of this unique endangered language on both islands.

The Dialects of English series provides concise, accessible, authoritative and up-to-date documentation for varieties of English, including English-based pidgins and creoles, from all over the English-speaking world. Written by experts who have conducted first-hand research, the volumes are the most obvious starting point for readers who would like to know more about a particular regional, urban or ethnic variety. The volumes follow a common structure, covering the context in which one clearly defined variety of English (or a number of closely related varieties) has been established as well as their phonetics and phonology, morphosyntax, lexis and social history. Each volume concludes with an annotated bibliography and some sample texts.

For further publications in English linguistics see also our Topics in English Linguistics book series.

Volumes published previously (with EUP) are listed below. All recent and forthcoming volumes published by De Gruyter Mouton are listed on the Content page.

• Robert McColl Millar, Northern and Insular Scots (2007)
• David Deterding, Singapore English (2007)
• Jennifer Hay, Margaret A. Maclagan & Elizabeth Gordon, New Zealand English (2008)
• Sailaja Pingali, Indian English (2009)
• Karen P. Corrigan, Irish English, Volume 1: Northern Ireland (2010)
• Sandra Clarke, Newfoundland and Labrador English (2010)
• Jane Setter, Cathy S. P. Wong & Brian H. S. Chan, Hong Kong English (2010)
• Joan C. Beal, Lourdes Burbano Elizondo & Carmen Llamas, Urban North-Eastern English: Tyneside to Teeside (2012)
• Urszula Clarke & Esther Asprey, West Midlands English: Birmingham and the Black Country (2012)

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