Table of contents
Preface
Earlier North American Englishes: Recent advances and future prospects
Varieties in focus
The emergence of new varieties of English in North America: Complex systems
Coordination in the courtroom: The uses of and in the records of the Salem witchcraft trials
Dialect in early African American plays: A qualitative assessment
Towards general American English
Historical retention, progressive nation, or the eye of the beholder? The evolution of morphological Americanisms
Grammar, text type, and diachrony as factors influencing complement choice in historical American English
Ideology and beyond
Enregisterment processes of American English in nineteenth-century U.S. newspapers
“Gems of elocution and humour”: Ideology, prescription and (self-)educational materials
Beyond the borders
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Canadian English
Canadian English lexis and semantics: A historical comparative resource in contrastive, real time perspective, 1683–2016
Dialects as a mirror of historical trajectories: Canadian English across Ontario (North America)
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