English in the Southern United States

Klappentext 2003 overview of the foundations of and research on language variation in southern United States. Zusammenfassung This 2003 volume! written by a team of experts! many of them internationally known! provides a broad overview of the foundations of and research on language variation in the southern United States. Central themes! issues and topics of scholarly investigation and debate figure prominently throughout the volume. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 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.

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• Authors: Stephen J. Nagle, Stephen J. (Coastal Carolina University) Sa Nagle, Stephen J. Sanders Nagle
• Assisted by: Stephen J. Nagle (Editor), Nagle Stephen J. (Editor), Sara L. Sanders (Editor), Sanders Sara L. (Editor), Sanders Sara L. (Editor), Nagle Stephen J. (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.12.2010
• EAN: 9780521172639
• ISBN: 978-0-521-17263-9
• No. of pages: 260
• Series: Studies in English Language; Studies in English Language
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; American English, Historical & comparative linguistics, Historical and comparative linguistics