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  • 1 - Calling Englishes As Complex Dynamic Systems: Diffusion and Restructuring

  • from Part I - Pooling Perspectives
  • Edited by Anna Mauranen, University of Helsinki, Svetlana Vetchinnikova, University of Helsinki
  • Book:
    Language Change
    Published online:
    17 December 2020
    Print publication:
    03 December 2020, pp 15-43

  • Summary

    This paper advocates the theory of 'Complex Dynamic Systems', developed in the sciences as a suitable framework for the understanding of the evolution of varieties and uses of English through time and space. After looking into earlier applications of this theory in linguistics, it surveys core properties of such systems and illustrates their relevance by applications to specific processes of change in the history of English. It then investigates processes of lexicosemantic diffusion and syntactic restructuring in World Englishes within this framework, trying to document its applicability.