Table of contents
Part I.Processes of change in Late Modern English
Chapter 2.Enregisterment and historical sociolinguistics
Chapter 3.The obelisk and the asterisk: Early to Late Modern views on language and change
Chapter 4.
A (great) deal of: Developments in 19th-century
British and Australian English
Chapter 5.‘but a[h] Hellen d[ea]r sure you have it more in your power in every
respect than I have’: Discourse marker sure in Irish English
Chapter 6.Scotland’s contribution to English vocabulary in Late Modern
times
Chapter 7.Early immigrant English: Midwestern English before the dust settled
Chapter 8.African American English in nineteenth-century Liberia: Processes of change in a transported dialect
Part II.Processes of change in Present Day English
Chapter 9.Attitudes to flat adverbs and English usage advice
Chapter 10.The modal auxiliary verb may and change in Irish
English
Chapter 11.Levelling processes and social change in a peripheral
community: Prevocalic /r/ in West Cumbria
Chapter 12.The goose vowel in South African English with special
reference to Coloured communities in 5 cities
Chapter 13.Borders and language
Index
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