The Syntax of Spoken Indian English -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- List of figures and tables -- List of abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- 1.1 English in India or Indian English? -- 1.2 Aims and scope of this study -- 1.3 Structure -- Chapter 2. Conceptual background -- 2.1 New Englishes and outer circles -- 2.1.1 Ideology and terminology: From English to Englishes -- 2.1.2 The legacy of Braj Kachru -- 2.1.3 "The Kachru catch" -- 2.1.4 The Dynamic Model -- 2.1.5 Outlook -- 2.2 The native speaker: An elusive concept -- 2.2.1 The native speaker and the discourse of hegemony -- 2.2.2 The native speaker and linguistic variation -- 2.2.3 Outlook -- 2.3 Contact-induced language change -- 2.3.1 Introduction -- 2.3.2 Mechanisms of contact-induced language change -- 2.4 Norms and standards -- 2.4.1 Norms and the (post)colonial speech community -- 2.4.2 Spoken and written standards -- Chapter 3. Multilingualism in India -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Typological survey -- 3.2.1 Patterns of multilingualism -- 3.2.2 South Asia as a sprachbund -- 3.2.3 South Asia as a discourse area -- 3.2.4 South Asia as a sociolinguistic area -- 3.3 English as an Indian language -- 3.3.1 Introduction -- 3.3.2 The Indian communicative space -- 3.3.3 Outlook -- Chapter 4. The syntax of spoken Indian English -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.1.1 Corpus-based approaches to IndE -- 4.1.2 ICE and ICE-India -- 4.1.3 The speakers -- 4.1.4 The data -- 4.1.5 Discourse-pragmatic sentence structure -- 4.2 Non-initial existential there -- 4.2.1 Definition -- 4.2.2 Existentials: Corpus evidence -- 4.2.3 Non-initial existential there in ICE-India -- 4.2.4 The canonical existential in ICE-India -- 4.2.5 Initial and non-initial existential constructions in spoken IndE: Speaker variables -- 4.2.6 Explanatory parameters.

4.3 Topicalization -- 4.3.1 Definition -- 4.3.2 Topicalization in ICE-India and ICE-GB: Form and frequency -- 4.3.3 Topicalization in ICE-India: Contexts and function -- 4.3.4 Preposing of non-arguments -- 4.3.5 Unlinked topic constructions -- 4.3.6 Explanatory parameters -- 4.4 Dislocation -- 4.4.1 Definition -- 4.4.2 Left dislocation: Form and function -- 4.4.3 Right dislocation: Form and function -- 4.4.4 Dislocation: Corpus evidence -- 4.4.5 Explanatory parameters -- 4.5 Cleft constructions -- 4.5.1 Definition -- 4.5.2 Clefts in ICE-GB -- 4.5.3 Clefts in ICE-India -- 4.5.4 Explanatory parameters -- 4.6 Utterance modifiers -- 4.6.1 Focus markers: Only and itself -- 4.6.2 Invariant tags -- Chapter 5. Conclusion -- 5.1 Indian English as a contact language -- 5.2 Multilingual competence: The norms of spoken Indian English -- 5.3 From norms to standards: Indian English in the 21st century -- References -- Author index -- Language index -- Subject index.