Palauan English

Interview with Edgar W. Schneider

“…There have been a few sophisticated technical attempts at testing predictions derived from the model with statistical machinery, e.g., with respect to the emergence of complex and distinctive verb patterns in later developmental phases (e.g., Mukherjee & Gries 2009), and I was pleased to see most of them found the predictions to be borne out by the data at hand. Weston (2011) suggested a few adjustments when applying the model to Gibraltar; Bautista (2010), Borlongan (2011), and Martin (2014) applied it to the Philippines, Huber (2014) to Ghana, Tan, Kuang, and Low (2010) to Malaysia, Imm (2016) to Singapore, Bennui and Hashim (2014) to Thailand, Biewer (2015) and Britain and Matsumoto (2015) to the South Pacific, Marsden (2013) to regional diversification of New Zealand English as a sign of phase 5 (differentiation), Collins (2012) to a range of varieties on a comparative basis, and so on (and you see I've been keeping track of the application cases that I have become aware of!). A class project at Northeastern Illinois University directed by Richard Hallet discussed the applicability of the model to the case of Malta in great detail, and the result, authored by a group of twelve students, was then published in 2009 in the journal English Today (Thusat et al 2009).…”