Author: Hickey, Raymond, [1954- ]; editor:
Title: Legacies of Colonial English : Studies in Transported Dialects
Description: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, (2004). orig.boards. 24x16cm, ix,713 pp, Series: Studies in English Language.. Textual maps & tables.. A small light stain to top binding edge. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contains 18 papers. Includes: Part I. Out of Britain: The dialectal structure of England [Juhani Klemola]; English in Scotland [Caroline Macafee]; Irish English [Raymond Hickey]; Part II. The New World: Early American English [Merja Kytö]; Seventeenth-century deportations to America [Laura Wright]; English dialects in the United States [Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes]; British dialect features in African Nova Scotia [Shana Poplack and Sali Tagliamonte]; English input to Newfoundland [ Sandra Clarke]; The rise and decline of Briticisms in Mainland Canadian English [ Jack Chambers]; English in the Southern United States [Edgar W. Schneider]; The transportation of Scots and English from Ulster [Michael Montgomery]; English input to the Caribbean [Raymond Hickey]; Part III. The Southern Hemisphere: English input to South Africa [Roger Lass]; English input to Australia [Scott Kiesling]; English input to New Zealand [Elizabeth Gordon and Peter Trudgill]; English input to Melanesia [Suzanne Romaine]; English on Tristan da Cunha [Daniel Schreier]; English on the Falklands [Andrea Sudbury].

Keywords: English Dialectology, Colonial English, Language, Germanic Languages, Linguistics, Linguistic, Dialect Dialects, Great Britain, Commonwealth