Southern English Varieties Then and Now / / ed. by Laura Wright.
Most of the world’s Extraterritorial Englishes stem historically from southern English dialects - Southern England having been the most densely-habited part of the country. However, the dialects of Southern England remain under-studied. The papers in this volume consider both diachronic and synchron...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] ,
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Dialect formation and dialect change in the Industrial Revolution: British vernacular English in the nineteenth century
- 2. The dialect of the Isles of Scilly: Exploring the relationship between language production and language perception in a Southern insular variety
- 3. A new dialect for a new village: Evidence for koinéization in East Kent
- 4. The clergyman and the dialect speaker: Some Sussex examples of a nineteenth century research tradition
- 5. I’ll git the milk time you bile the kittle do you oon’t get no tea yit no coffee more oon’t I: Phonetic erosion and grammaticalisation in East Anglian conjunction-formation
- 6. Emphatic “yes” and “no” in Eastern English: jearse and dow
- 7. Steps towards characterizing Bristolian
- 8. ‘I don’t think I have an accent’: Exploring varieties of southern English at the British Library
- 9. The historical geographical distribution of periphrastic do in southern dialects
- Index