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The history of English. Volume 5, Varieties of English / edited by Alexander Bergs, Laurel Brinton.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The History of English ; Volume 5Publisher: Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter Mouton, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (406 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783110525045 (e-book)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: History of English. Volume 5, Varieties of English.DDC classification:
  • 427 23
LOC classification:
  • PE1074.7 .H578 2017
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This volume is one of the first detailed expositions of the history of different varieties of English. It explores language variation and varieties of English from an historical perspective, covering theoretical topics such as diffusion and supraregionalization as well as concrete descriptions of the internal and external historical developments of more than a dozen varieties of English including American English, African American Vernacular English, Received Pronunciation, Estuary English, and English in Canada, Africa, India, Wales, among many others.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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