Toward a social history of American English / by Dillard, J. L. 1924-

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East Anglian English /

Table of Contents: “…Third-person singular zero : African-American English, East Anglian dialects and Spanish persecution in the Low Countries /…”
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Debating the issues in colonial newspapers : primary documents on events of the period / by Copeland, David A., 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Attakulakula visits King George II, 1730: Native American-English relations --…”
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Inventing English : a portable history of the language / by Lerer, Seth, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: finding English, finding us -- Caedmon learns to sing : Old English and the origins of poetry -- From Beowulf to Wulfstan : the language of Old English literature -- In this year : the politics of language and the end of Old English -- From kingdom to realm : middle English in a French world -- Lord of this langage : Chaucer's English -- I is an Ille a millere as are ye : Middle English dialects -- The great vowel shift and the changing character of English -- Chancery, Caxton, and the making of English prose -- I do, I will : Shakespeare's English -- A universal hubbub wild : new words and worlds in early modern English -- Visible speech : the Orthoepists and the origins of standard English -- A harmless drudge : Samuel Johnson and the making of the dictionary -- Horrid, hooting stanzas : Lexicography and literature in American English -- Antses in the sugar : dialect and regionalism in American English -- Hello, dude : Mark Twain and the making of the American idiom -- Ready for the funk : African American English and its impact -- Pioneers through an untrodden forest : the Oxford English dictionary and its readers -- Listening to Private Ryan : war and language -- He speaks in your voice : everybody's English.…”
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Inventing English : a portable history of the language / by Lerer, Seth, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: finding English, finding us -- Caedmon learns to sing : Old English and the origins of poetry -- From Beowulf to Wulfstan : the language of Old English literature -- In this year : the politics of language and the end of Old English -- From kingdom to realm : middle English in a French world -- Lord of this langage : Chaucer's English -- I is an Ille a millere as are ye : Middle English dialects -- The great vowel shift and the changing character of English -- Chancery, Caxton, and the making of English prose -- I do, I will : Shakespeare's English -- A universal hubbub wild : new words and worlds in early modern English -- Visible speech : the Orthoepists and the origins of standard English -- A harmless drudge : Samuel Johnson and the making of the dictionary -- Horrid, hooting stanzas : Lexicography and literature in American English -- Antses in the sugar : dialect and regionalism in American English -- Hello, dude : Mark Twain and the making of the American idiom -- Ready for the funk : African American English and its impact -- Pioneers through an untrodden forest : the Oxford English dictionary and its readers -- Listening to Private Ryan : war and language -- He speaks in your voice : everybody's English.…”
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Varieties of English. by Bergs, Alexander

Table of Contents: “…Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Standard American English -- Chapter 3: Regional varieties of American English -- Chapter 4: Canadian English in real-time perspective -- Chapter 5: Re-viewing the origins and history of African American Language -- Chapter 6: Standard British English -- Chapter 7: Regional varieties of British English -- Chapter 8: Received Pronunciation -- Chapter 9: Estuary English -- Chapter 10: Cockney -- Chapter 11: Celtic and Celtic Englishes -- Chapter 12: Scots -- Chapter 13: English in Ireland…”
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Inventing English : a portable history of the language / by Lerer, Seth, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Horrid, Hooting Stanzas: Lexicography and Literature in American English -- 14. Antses in the Sugar: Dialect and Regionalism in American English -- 15. …”
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Studies in the History of the English Language VI : Evidence and Method in Histories of English. by Adams, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Evidence and method in the historical study of English; Part I: Corpora, evidence, method; The development of free adjuncts in English and Dutch; Semantic dependencies and the history of ellipsis alternation; The phrasal verb in American English: Using corpora to track down historical trends in particle distribution, register variation, and noun collocations; On the grammaticalization of the thing is and related issues in the history of American English; Alfredian īo ~ ēo, reluctant function words, and Schriftbilder.…”
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Why do languages change? / by Trask, R. L. 1944-2004

Table of Contents: “…-- Where does English come from? -- Why is American English different from British English? -- Why is English spelling so eccentric? …”
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The ecology of language evolution / by Mufwene, Salikoko S.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 The Founder Principle in the development of creoles; 3 The development of American Englishes: factoring contact in and the social bias out; 4 The legitimate and illegitimate offspring of English; 5 What research on development of creoles can contribute to genetic linguistics; 6 Language contact, evolution, and death: how ecology rolls the dice; 7 Past and recent population movements in Africa: their impact on its linguistic landscape; 8 Conclusions: the big picture; Notes.…”
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English historical linguistics. an international handbook /

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New-dialect formation in Canada : evidence from the English modal auxiliaries / by Dollinger, Stefan

Table of Contents: “…New-Dialect Formationin Canada Evidence from the English modal auxiliaries; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; List of Maps; List of Figures; List of Tables; About this book; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 CANADIAN ENGLISH: A RESEARCH HISTORY OF THE 'OTHER' VARIETY OF NORTH AMERICAN ENGLISH; 3 ONTARIO 1776-1850: AN EXTERNAL LANGUAGE HISTORY; 4 THE CORPUS OF EARLY ONTARIO ENGLISH, PRE-CONFEDERATION SECTION (CONTE-pC); 5 NEW-DIALECT FORMATION IN EARLY ONTARIO; 6 LATE MODERN ENGLISH MODAL AUXILIARIES: METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS.…”
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Late modern English syntax /

Table of Contents: “…Let's not, Let's don't and Don't let's in British and American English Anita Auer -- 4. Do we got a difference? …”
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Formations of United States colonialism /

Table of Contents: “…Kēhaulani Kauanui -- Missionaries, slaves, and Indians : fragmented colonial exchanges in the early American South / Barbara Krauthamer -- American empire, Hispanism, and the nationalist visions of Albizu, Recto, and Grau / Augusto Espiritu -- Becoming Indo-Hispano : Reies López Tijerina and the New Mexican land grant movement / Lorena Oropeza -- Seeking new fields of labor : football and colonial political economies in American Samoa / Faʻanofo Lisaclaire Uperesa -- The Kēpaniwai (Damming of the Water) Heritage Gardens : alternative futures beyond the settler state / Dean Itsuji Saranillio -- Our stories are maps larger than can be held : self-determination and the normative force of law at the periphery of American expansionism / Julian Aguon -- Governmentality and cartographies of colonial spaces : The "progressive military map of Porto Rico," 1908-1914 / Lanny Thompson -- "I'm not running on my gender" : the 2010 Navajo Nation presidential race, gender, and the politics of tradition / Jennifer Nez Denetdale -- Translation, American English, and the national insecurities of empire / Vicente L. …”
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Processes of change : studies in late modern and present-day English /

Table of Contents: “…Amador-Moreno -- Scotland's contribution to English vocabulary in late modern times / Marina Dossena -- Early immigrant English: Midwestern English before the dust settled / Samantha Litty, Jennifer Mercer and Joseph Salmons -- African American English in nineteenth-century Liberia: processes of change in a transported dialect / Lucia Siebers -- Processes of change in present day English. …”
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Keeping in touch : emigrant letters across the English-speaking world /

Table of Contents: “…"[T]his is all [,] answer soom" African American vernacular letters from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Lucia Siebers -- Morphosyntactic features in Earlier African American English: a qualitative assessment of semi-literate letters / Alexander Kautzsch -- Memoirs from Central America: a linguistic analysis of personal recollections of West Indian laborers in the construction of the Panama Canal / Stephanie Hackert.…”
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Immigrants in American history arrival, adaptation, and integration /

Table of Contents: “…British and British Americans (English, Scots, Scots Irish, and Welsh), to 1870 /…”
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The prodigal tongue : the love-hate relationship between American and British English / by Murphy, M. Lynne

Papers from the 5th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Cambridge, 6-9 April 1987 : dedicated to the memory of James Peter Thorne (1933-1988) /

Table of Contents: “…PAPERS FROM THE 5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENGLISH HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Table of contents; IN MEMORIAM JAMES PETER THORNE 1933-1988 JOHN LYONS; PREFACE; LIST OF PARTICIPANTS; RESTANDARDISATION IN MIDDLE SCOTS; BRITISH AND AMERICAN ENGLISH: ODI ET AMO; THE STYLISTIC FUNCTION OF ME GAN RECONSIDERED; HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS -- LINGUISTIC ARCHAEOLOGY; THE ASSESSMENT OF LEXICAL MORTALITY AND REPLACEMENT BETWEEN OLD AND MODERN ENGLISH…”
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Speaking American : a history of English in the United States / by Bailey, Richard W.

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