Southern English Varieties Then and Now
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"[...] this book represents a valuable contribution to the field, which has the great merit of presenting a challenge to a well-entrenched stereotype about the dialects of the most populated part of the UK. The studies which make up this book may be followed by more comprehensive studies of these (and other) southern English varieties, in order to explore in-depth their features and shed more light on their relations with each other as well as with Standard English and the dialects of other parts of the country."
Enrico Torre in: LINGUIST List 30.1609
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- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Dialect formation and dialect change in the Industrial Revolution: British vernacular English in the nineteenth century
- 2. The dialect of the Isles of Scilly: Exploring the relationship between language production and language perception in a Southern insular variety
- 3. A new dialect for a new village: Evidence for koinéization in East Kent
- 4. The clergyman and the dialect speaker: Some Sussex examples of a nineteenth century research tradition
- 5. I'll git the milk time you bile the kittle do you oon't get no tea yit no coffee more oon't I: Phonetic erosion and grammaticalisation in East Anglian conjunction-formation
- 6. Emphatic "yes" and "no" in Eastern English: jearse and dow
- 7. Steps towards characterizing Bristolian
- 8. 'I don't think I have an accent': Exploring varieties of southern English at the British Library
- 9. The historical geographical distribution of periphrastic do in southern dialects
- Index
