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Elizabeth Traugott offers these suggestions for corpora on world Englishes:

eWAVE = The electronic World Atlas of Varieties of English. 2011. Edited by Bernd Kortmann and Kerstin Lunkenheimer. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. http://www.ewave-atlas.org/.
ICE = The International Corpus of English, version 2. 2006. Coordinated by Gerald Nelson (University of Hong Kong). http://ice-corpora.net/ice/index.htm.
ONZE = Origins of New Zealand English Corpus. In progress. Compiled by the ONZE project team. University of Canterbury. http://www.lacl.canterbury.ac.nz/onze/index.html.
SAVE = The South Asian Varieties of English Corpus. 2011. Compiled by Joybrato Mukherjee, Tobias Bernaisch, Christopher Koch, and Marco Schilk. University of Giessen. http://www.uni-giessen.de/cms/faculties/f05/engl/ling/research/save.

Tags: Aboriginal E, Acrolectal Fiji E, alternations, Appalachian E, Australian E, Australian Vernacular E, Bahamian C, Bahamian E, Bangladesh, Barbadian C (Bajan), Belizean C, Bislama, Black South African E, British Creole, Butler E, Cameroon E, Cameroon Pidgin, Canada, Channel Islands E, Chicano E, Colloquial American E, Colloquial Fiji E, Colloquial Singapore E, dative, dialects, ditransitive, Earlier African American Vernacular E, East Africa, East Anglia, Eastern Maroon C, english, Falkland Islands E, Ghanaian E, Ghanaian Pidgin, Great Britain, Gullah, Guyanese C, Hawaiian C, Hong Kong, Hong Kong E, India, Indian E, Indian South African E, Ireland, Irish E, Jamaica, Jamaican C, Jamaican E, Kenyan E, Krio, Liberian Settler E, Malaysian E, Maldives, Manx E, Nepal, New Zealand, New Zealand E, Newfoundland E, Nigerian E, Nigerian Pidgin, Norf'k, North of England, Orkney and Shetland E, Ozark E, Pakistan, Pakistan E, Palmerston E, Philippines, Roper River C (Kriol), Rural African American Vernacular E, San Andrés C, Saramaccan, Scottish E, SE of England, Singapore, South Asia, Southeast American Enclave dialects, Sranan, Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka E, St. Helena E, SW of England, Tanzanian E, Tok Pisin, Torres Strait C, Trinidadian C, Tristan da Cunha E, Ugandan E, Urban African American Vernacular E, USA, Vernacular Liberian E, Vincentian C, Welsh E, White South African E, White Zimbabwean E, world, [Maltese E]

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