English in the southern United States /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2003.
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| Series: | Studies in English language.
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| Online Access: | Sample text Table of contents Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
Table of Contents:
- 1. The origins of southern American English / John Algeo
- 2. Shakespeare in the coves and hollows? : toward a history of southern English / Edgar Schneider
- 3. Eight grammatical features of southern US speech present in early modern London prison narratives / Laura Wright
- 4. The shared ancestry of African-American and American white southern Englishes : some speculations dictated by history / Salikoko Mufwene
- 5. The complex grammatical history of African-American and white vernaculars in the South / Patricia Cukor-Avila
- 6. Grammatical features of southern speech : yall, might could, and fixin to / Cynthia Bernstein
- 7. Sounding southern : a look at the phonology of English in the South / George Dorrill
- 8. Vowel shifting in the southern states / Crawford Feagin
- 9. Enclave dialect communities in the South / Walt Wolfram
- 10. Urbanization and the evolution of southern American English / Jan Tillery and Guy Bailey
- 11. The Englishes of southern Louisiana / Connie Eble
- 12. Features and uses of southern style / Barbara Johnstone.