Language Contacts Meet English Dialects
Studies in Honour of Markku Filppula
Published on 28. October 2009
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-1-4438-1339-6 (ISBN)
Description
This book presents a collection of fresh research on language contacts and dialects, and the interface between the two. The volume celebrates the work of Professor Markku Filppula, an eminent scholar in the fields of Irish English, Celtic contacts in the history of English, and language contacts and vernacular universals in nonstandard Englishes.The articles in this volume explore theories and methods employed in the study of language contacts and variation, Celtic substrata in Irish and British English, and dialect in the British Isles. The writers' perspectives range from cognitive processing to sociolinguistics, and from theoretical and comparative discussions to new empirical, corpus-based studies.
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Edition
Unabridged edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Newcastle upon Tyne
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Unabridged edition
Product notice
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 212 mm
Width: 148 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-4438-1339-6 (9781443813396)
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Dr. Esa Penttilae is Lecturer in English Language and Translation at the University of Eastern Finland. He received his PhD in English from the University of Joensuu in 2006. His main interests include idiomaticity, figurative language, and cognitive and constructional approaches to language. He is also co-editor of Filppula, Klemola, Palander & Penttilae: Dialects Across Borders (2005) and Filppula, Klemola, Palander & Penttilae: Topics in Dialectal Variation (2006).Dr. Heli Paulasto is University Lecturer in English linguistics at the University of Eastern Finland. She specialises in English variationist research and is the author of Welsh English Syntax: Contact and Variation (2006), co-author of Filppula, Klemola and Paulasto: English and Celtic in Contact (2008), and co-editor of Filppula, Klemola and Paulasto: Vernacular Universals and Language Contacts: Evidence from Varieties of English and Beyond (2009).