“…Lexical features arising from the historical and contemporary contact ecologies between English and indigenous languages have always been a fruitful area within the paradigm of world Englishes (Baumgardner, 1998; Biermeier, 2014, 2017; Cannon, 1988; Chan & Kwok, 1985; Dako, 2001; Tan, 2009; Tent, 2001; Yang, 2009). Commonly delineated structural features of varietal lexis encompass chronology, etymology, semantics, grammar and word‐formation (Biermeier, 2008; Cannon, 1988; Evans, 2015; Moody, 1996; Qin & Guo, 2020; Tent, 2001; Yang, 2005, 2009).…”