English in the Southern United States

Name: English in the Southern United States
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ISBN: 9780521172639

ISBN-10: 0521172632

ISBN-13: 9780521172639

Edition: 2010

Authors: Stephen J. Nagle, Sara L. Sanders

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Book details

List price: $38.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/16/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 260
Size: 5.91" wide x 8.90" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



Introduction



The origins of southern American English




Shakespeare in the coves and hollows? Toward a history of southern English




Eight grammatical features of southern US speech present in early modern London prison narratives




The shared ancestry of African-American and American white southern Englishes: some speculations dictated by history




The complex grammatical history of African-American and white vernaculars in the South




Grammatical features of southern speech: yall, might could, and fixin to Cynthia Bernstein



Sounding southern: a look at the phonology of English in the South




Vowel shifting in the southern states




Enclave dialect communities in the South




Urbanization and the evolution of southern American English




The Englishes of southern




Features and uses of southern style