Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- List of abbreviations -- Changing English: global and local perspectives -- I. Towards the study of Global English -- Editors' Introduction to Part I -- Crisis of the "Outer Circle"? - Globalisation, the weak nation state, and the need for new taxonomies in World Englishes research -- The Ecology of Language and the New Englishes: toward an integrative framework -- II. Ongoing changes in Englishes around the globe -- Editors' Introduction to Part II -- The Present Perfect as a core feature of World Englishes -- Innovative structures in the relative clauses of indigenized L2 Asian English varieties -- Morphosyntactic typology, contact and variation: Cape Flats English in relation to other South African Englishes in the Mouton World Atlas of Variation in English -- Omission of direct objects in New Englishes -- The definite article in World Englishes -- Aspects of Verb Complementation in New Zealand Newspaper English -- Extended uses of the progressive form in Inner, Outer and Expanding Circle Englishes -- III. Expanding the horizons: lingua franca, cognitive, and contact-linguistic perspectives -- Editors' Introduction to Part III -- A glimpse of ELF -- Lending bureaucracy voice: negotiating English in institutional encounters -- On the relationship between the cognitive and the communal: a complex systems perspective -- Transfer is Transfer; Grammaticalization is Grammaticalization -- Subject index -- Languages and Varieties index -- Author Index