This book presents the first systematic quantitative study of null subjects not only in British English, but also in the contact varieties Indian, Hong Kong and Singapore English. Analysing informal spoken language, it addresses issues relevant for language contact and World Englishes, corpus linguistics and variationist sociolinguistics, linguistic typology and syntax.

• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• List of Tables
• List of Figures
• List of Abbreviations
• 1. Introduction
• Part A: Null subjects in British English
• 2. Null subjects: Theoretical, methodological and descriptive foundations
• 3. Empirical baseline: Null subjects in Spoken British English
• Part B: Null subjects in Asian Englishes
• 4. Asian languages and varieties of English: Theory, description and comparison
• 5. Empirical comparison: Null subjects in Asian Englishes
• 6. Discussion and Conclusion
• References
• Appendix A: Data
• Appendix B: Additional statistics
• Index