Earlier North American Englishes /
"Varieties of English in the U.S. and Canada display fascinating developments from colonial times up until the twentieth century. To throw light on the linguistics of North American Englishes and their socio-historical contexts, this volume brings together research from various traditions, incl...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2022]
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| Series: | Varieties of English around the world. General series ;
v. G66. |
| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3315432 |
Table of Contents:
- Earlier North American Englishes: recent advances and future prospects / Merja Kytö and Lucia Siebers
- Varieties in focus. The emergence of new varieties of English in North America: complex systems / William A. Kretzschmar, Jr.
- Coordination in the courtroom: the uses of and in the records of the Salem witchcraft trials / Merja Kytö
- Dialect in early African-American plays: a qualitative assessment / Alexander Kautzsch
- Towards general American English. Historical retention, progressive nation, or the eye of the beholder? The evolution of morphological Americanisms / Lieselotte Anderwald
- Grammar, text type, and diachrony as factors influencing complement choice in historical American English / Jukka Tyrkkö and Juhani Rudanko
- Ideology and beyond. Enregisterment processes of American English in nineteenth-century U.S. newspapers / Ingrid Paulsen
- "Gems of elocution and humour": ideology, prescription and (self-)educational materials / Marina Dossena
- Beyond the borders: Canadian English. Canadian English lexis and semantics: a historical-comparative resource in contrastive, real-time perspective, 1683-2016 / Stefan Dollinger
- Dialects as a mirror of historical trajectories: Canadian English across Ontario (North America) / Sali A. Tagliamonte.