The Typology of Asian Englishes -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- The typology of Asian Englishes -- 1. Why typology? Why Asian Englishes? -- 2. Thrusts and themes of the collection -- 3. To conclude, but only for now -- References -- The Asian typology of English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Evolution and ecology -- 2.1 Selection and replication -- 2.2 Multilingual ecologies and transmission -- 2.3 The abnormality of monolingual ecologies for our theories of evolution -- 3. Singlish typology -- 3.1 Three features of Singlish grammar -- 3.2 Evolution and ecology as explanatory parameters -- 4. Final remarks -- References -- Aspects of the morphosyntactic typology of Hong Kong English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The sociolinguistic contexts of HKE -- 3. Finiteness as a typological category, in English, and in Chinese -- 3.1 Finiteness in standard varieties of English -- 3.2 Tense and finiteness in Chinese -- 4. Analysing the HKE data -- 4.1 Tense -- 4.2 Finiteness -- 5. Conclusion: Language contact, typology, and the ecology of the language-contact environment in Hong Kong -- References -- Typological diversity in New Englishes -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Universals in New Englishes -- 3. Data -- 3.1 Indian English -- 3.2 Singapore English -- 3.3 Substrate grammars for Indian English and Singapore English -- 4. Past tense omission (K&S #40) -- 5. Over-extension of the progressive (K&S #21) -- 5.1 Use of progressive -ing in Indian English -- 5.2 Use of progressive -ing in Singapore English -- 5.3 Discussion -- 6. Copula absence (K&S #57) -- 7. Conclusions -- References -- Thai English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 2.1 English in Thailand -- 2.2 Rhythm -- 2.3 Vowels -- 3. Methodology -- 3.1 Rhythm -- 3.2 Vowels -- 4. Results -- 4.1 Rhythm -- 4.2 Vowels -- 5. Conclusion -- References.

Revisiting English prosody -- 1. Why revisit English prosody? -- 2. Like Chinese mε55? -- 2.1 Discourse particles -- 2.2 Word level -- 2.3 Phrase / Utterance -- 3. But is it tone? -- 4. Asian Englishes on the agenda -- 4.1 English intonation models and tone language classification -- 4.2 The typology of Asian Englishes -- 5. Closing remarks -- References -- Index.