Earlier North American Englishes
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Earlier North American Englishes
（Varieties of English around the world, v. G66）
J. Benjamins, c2022
- : HB
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- 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
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Varieties of English in the U.S. and Canada display fascinating developments from colonial times up until the twenty-first century. To throw light on the linguistics of North American Englishes and their socio-historical contexts, this volume brings together research from various traditions, including corpus linguistics, variation studies, dialectology, historical sociolinguistics, historical pragmatics, language ideology, and the enregisterment framework. In the ten chapters of the volume, a wide variety of sources, published and unpublished, containing evidence of past language use in the U.S. and Canada are introduced and exploited for novel insights. Among the research questions addressed are the following: how to best model the emergence of new varieties of English in North America? Are morphological Americanisms historical retentions, post-colonial revivals, or progressive innovations? What is distinctly Canadian in the context of North American Englishes? How can synchronic dialects be used to examine trajectories of change in the history of Canadian English?
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