Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Processes of change in Late Modern English
6. Chapter 2. Enregisterment and historical sociolinguistics 7
7. Chapter 3. The obelisk and the asterisk 1
8. Chapter 4. A (great) deal of : Developments in 19th-century British and Australian English 49
9. Chapter 5. ‘ but a[h] Hellen d[ea]r sure you have it more in your power in every respect than I have ’ – Discourse marker sure in Irish English 73
10. Chapter 6. Scotland’s contribution to English vocabulary in Late Modern times 95
11. Chapter 7. Early immigrant English 115
12. Chapter 8. African American English in nineteenth-century Liberia 139
13. Part II. Processes of change in Present Day English
14. Chapter 9. Attitudes to flat adverbs and English usage advice 159
15. Chapter 10. The modal auxiliary verb may and change in Irish English 183
16. Chapter 11. Levelling processes and social changes in a peripheral community 203
17. Chapter 12. The goose vowel in South African English with special reference to Coloured communities in 5 cities 227
18. Chapter 13. Borders and language 247
19. Index 261