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American English / Albert H. Marckwardt ; revised by J. L. Dillard.
LIBRA PE2808 .M3 1980
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marckwardt, Albert H. (Albert Henry), 1903-1975
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--United States.
- English language.
- English language--United States--History.
- English language--History.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History
- Physical Description:
- xi, 192 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1980.
- Contents:
- The English language in America
- The language of the colonists
- Languages and cultures in contact
- Colonial lag and leveling
- Innovation, compounding, derivation, and tall talk
- The rise and fall of the genteel tradition
- Social and regional variation
- The names thereof
- American English, international English, and the future.
- Notes:
- From the Madeline Kripke Collection of the History of Lexicography.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-187) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0195026004
- 9780195026009
- 0195026098
- 9780195026092
- OCLC:
- 5894304
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