Peter Siemund has been Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Hamburg, Germany since 2001. He pursues a cross-linguistic typological approach in his work on reflexivity and self-intensifiers, pronominal gender, interrogative constructions, speech acts and clause types, argument structure, tense and aspect, varieties of English, language contact, and multilingual development. His publications include, as author, Pronominal gender in English: A study of English varieties from a cross-linguistic perspective (2008), The amazing world of Englishes. A practical introduction (with Julia Davydova and Georg Maier, 2012), Varieties of English: A typological approach (2013), and Speech acts and clause types: English in a cross-linguistic context (2018), and, as editor, Language contact and contactlanguages (with Noemi Kintana, 2008), Linguistic universals and language variation (2011), and Foreign language education in multilingual classrooms (with Andreas Bonnet, 2018).

Jakob R. E. Leimgruber is Lecturer at the University of Basel, Switzerland. His research focusses on world Englishes and on English in multilingual contexts. He is the author of Singapore English: Variation, structure, and use (2013) and Language planning and policy in Quebec: A comparative perspective (2019).

Chapter 1: The multilingual ecologies of Singapore, Hong Kong, and Dubai PART I: SOCIO-HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES Chapter 2: The origins of Singapore English Chapter 3: A socio-historical approach to multilingualism in Hong Kong Chapter 4: Socio-historical multilingualism and language policies in Dubai PART II: LANGUAGE POLICIES AND LANGUAGE PLANNING Chapter 5: The state of/and language planning in Singapore Chapter 6: Multilingualism, language policy, and social diversity in Hong Kong Chapter 7: Multilingualism, language management, and social diversity in the United Arab Emirates PART III: SOCIETAL MULTILINGUALISM Chapter 8: Multilingualism and multiculturalism in Singapore Chapter 9: Societal multilingualism in Hong Kong Chapter 10: The linguistic and semiotic landscapes of Dubai PART IV: MULTILINGUAL LANGUAGE ACQUISITION Chapter 11: Multilingual language acquisition in Singapore Chapter 12: Medium of instruction issues in trilingual Hong Kong primary schools Chapter 13: Multilingualism and linguistic hybridity in Dubai PART V: THE ENGLISHES OF POSTCOLONIAL CITIES Chapter 14: Grammatical change and diversity in Singapore English Chapter 15: Hong Kong English: Structural features and future prospects Chapter 16: Morpho-syntactic features of English as a lingua franca in Dubai and Sharjah