The new Cambridge history of the English language. Volume V, North America and the Caribbean / edited by Natalie Schilling, Derek Denis, Raymond Hickey

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schilling, Natalie, editor.

Denis, Derek, editor.

Hickey, Raymond, 1954- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--History.

English language.

English language--North America--History.

English language--Caribbean Area--History.

Caribbean Area.

North America.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Other Title:

History of the English language

English language

North America and the Caribbean

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2026

Summary:

"This volume examines the development of forms of English in North America from the earliest founder populations through to present-day varieties in the United States and Canada. The linguistic analyses of today's forms emphasise language variation and change with a view to determining the trajectories for current linguistic change. The first part on English in the United States also has dedicated chapters on the history of African American English and the English of Spanish-heritage people in the United States. Part II is concerned with English in Canada and contains seven chapters beginning with the anglophone settlement of Canada and continuing with chapters on individual regions of that country including English in Quebec. Part III consists of chapters devoted to the history of English in the Anglophone Caribbean, looking at various creoles in that region, both in the islands and the Rim, with a special chapter on Jamaica and on the connections between the Caribbean and the United States"-- Cambridge Core

Contents:

Language change and the history of American English / Walt Wolfram

The dialectology of Anglo-American English / Natalie Schilling

The roots and development of New England English / James N. Stanford

The history of the Midland–Northern boundary / Matthew J. Gordon

The spread of English westwards / Valerie Fridland and Tyler Kendall

American English in the city: the case of Pittsburgh / Barbara Johnstone

New York City and Baltimore / Aidan Malanoski and Michael Newman

English in the Southern United States / Becky Childs and Paul E. Reed

Contact forms of American English / Cristopher Font-Santiago and Joseph Salmons

The roots of African American English / Tracey Weldon

The Great Migration and regional variation in the speech of African Americans / Charlie Farrington

Rural African American English / Patricia Cukor-Avila

Urban African American English / Nicole Holliday

Puerto Rican English / Rosa E. Guzzardo Tamargo

The English of Americans of Mexican and Central American heritage / Erik R. Thomas

Anglophone settlement and the creation of Canadian English / Charles Boberg

The open-class lexis of Canadian English: history, structure, correlations / Stefan Dollinger

Ontario English: Loyalists and beyond / Derek Denis, Bridget L. Jankowski, and Sali A. Tagliamonte

The Prairies and the West of Canada / Alexandra D’Arcy and Nicole Rosen

Canadian Maritime English: solidarity and resistance, yeah? / Matt Hunt Gardner

English in Newfoundland / William J. Kirwin, Sandra Clarke, and Raymond Hickey

English as a minority language in Quebec: a (socio)linguistic aperçu / Shana Poplack

Early English-lexifier creole in the circum-Caribbean area / Norval Smith

The Caribbean Anglophone contact varieties: creoles and koines / Jeffrey P. Williams

English in Jamaica: between local and foreign / Silvia Kouwenberg

The Anglophone Caribbean rim / Angela Bartens

North American–Caribbean linguistic connections / Stephanie Hackert

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed April 20, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: New Cambridge history of the English language

ISBN:

9781009205757

1009205757

9781009205771

1009205773

OCLC:

1569673962

Publisher Number:

CIPO000361798

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license