The Mouton World Atlas of Variation in English (WAVE) presents grammatical variation in
spontaneous spoken English mapping 235 features in 48 varieties of English (traditional
dialects high-contact mother tongue Englishes and indiginized second-language Englishes) and
26 English-based Pidgins and Creoles in eight Anglophone world regions (Africa Asia Australia
British Isles the Caribbean North America the Pacific and the South Atlantic). The analyses
of the 74 varieties are based on descriptive materials naturalistic corpus data and native
speaker knowledge.
