English in the southern United States / edited by Stephen J. Nagle and Sara L. Sanders.
Material type: TextSeries: Studies in English languagePublication details: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [(c)2003.]Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 244 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
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- 0511062036
- 9780511062032
- 0511070497
- 9780511070495
- 9780511486715
- 0511486715
- English language -- Southern States
- English language -- Southern States -- Foreign elements -- African
- English language -- Social aspects -- Southern States
- African Americans -- Southern States -- Languages
- English language -- Variation -- Southern States
- English language -- Dialects -- Southern States
- African languages -- Influence on English
- Black English -- Southern States
- Americanisms -- Southern States
- PE2922
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Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
This volume, written by a team of experts, many of them internationally known, provides a broad overview of the foundations of and current research on language variation in the southern United States. Central themes, issues and topics of scholarly investigation and debate figure prominently throughout the volume.
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