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.