Markku Filppula's scholarly work delves into the intricate tapestry of English as it is spoken across the British Isles and around the globe. His research investigates both historical and contemporary linguistic variations, offering deep insights into the evolution and diversity of World Englishes.
Focusing on the grammar of Irish English, or Hiberno-English, this work provides a detailed analysis of its dialects, both historical and contemporary. It highlights the unique grammatical characteristics that distinguish Hiberno-English, offering insights into its linguistic evolution and contact influences.
Global and Local Perspectives
This book examines the special nature of English both as a global and a local language, focusing on some of the ongoing changes and on the emerging new structural and discoursal characteristics of varieties of English. Although it is widely recognised that processes of language change and contact bear affinities, for example, to processes observable in second-language acquisition and lingua franca use, the research into these fields has so far not been sufficiently brought into contact with each other. The articles in this volume set out to combine all these perspectives in ways that give us a better understanding of the changing nature of English in the modern world.