Download or read book Simplicity and Typological Effects in the Emergence of New Englishes written by Thomas Brunner and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-07-24 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is based on a detailed corpus-based investigation of the structure of noun phrases (NPs) in Singaporean English and Kenyan English with the aim of detecting, on the one hand, typological effects from substrate languages and, on the other hand, simplification patterns known to play a role in such varieties.