Earlier North American Englishes / edited by Merja Kytö, Lucia Siebers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kytö, Merja, editor.

Siebers, Lucia, editor.

John Benjamins Publishing Company

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Varieties of English around the world. General series ; v. G66.

Varieties of English around the world (VEAW) ; volume G66

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--United States--History.

English language.

English language--Variation--United States.

English language--Canada--History.

English language--Variation--Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 261 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2022]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Amsterdam, Netherlands Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 08, 2022).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Earlier North American Englishes

ISBN:

9789027257949

9027257949

Publisher Number:

40031194233

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.