Markku Filppula
Markku Filppula is Professor of English at the University of Eastern Finland. His research has focused on present-day and past varieties of English spoken in the British Isles and World Englishes. He is the author of The Grammar of Irish English: Lan
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Markku Filppula is Professor of English at the University of Eastern Finland. His research has focused on present-day and past varieties of English spoken in the British Isles and World Englishes. He is the author of The Grammar of Irish English: Language in Hibernian Style (Routledge, 1999), and co-author of English and Celtic in Contact (Routledge, 2008). He is co-editor of The Celtic Roots of English (University of Joensuu Press, 2002), Dialects Across Borders (Benjamins, 2005), and Vernacular Universals and Language Contacts (Routledge, 2009).Juhani Klemola is Professor of English Philology at the University of Tampere. His teaching and research interests are in dialect syntax, contact linguistics, and historical dialectology. Dr Klemola is co-author of English and Celtic in Contact (2008), and co-editor of a number of publications, including Vernacular Universals and Language Contacts: Evidence from Varieties of English and Beyond (2009), Types of Variation: Diachronic, Dialectal and Typological Interfaces (2006), Dialects Across Borders (2005) and The Celtic Roots of English (2002).Devyani Sharma is professor of sociolinguistics at Queen Mary, University of London. Her research deals with dialect variation in postcolonial and other Englishes, sociolinguistics, bilingualism, language contact, typology, and syntax. She has recently co-edited Research Methods in Linguistics (Cambridge University Press 2013) and English in the Indian Diaspora (Benjamins 2014).
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