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The unknown Englishes? Testing German students’ability to identify varieties of English
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Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- For Manfred Görlach on the occasion of his 60th birthday 1
- Publications by Manfred Görlach 7
- Introduction 15
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I. General and comparative studies
- Types of English heteronyms 19
- Zero coming to naught 27
- The progressive and habitual aspects in non-standard Englishes 33
- Colonisation, migration, and functions of English 47
- British English and International English — two debatable terms 59
- Passive-like constructions in English-based and other creoles 71
- A sub-text of the sixties 87
- The unknown Englishes? Testing German students’ability to identify varieties of English 93
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II. The British Isles
- “Oh dearie me!” 109
- High-frequency variables in dialect texts 125
- Irish English and Word English 139
- Ayrshire as a linguistic area 159
- The spelling of Scots 173
- Ma language is disgraceful 185
- The rediscovery of the Ulster Scots language 211
- On some plant names in Britain and beyond 227
- The use of non-literary manuscript texts for the study of dialect lexis 235
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III. North America
- When did Southern American English begin? 255
- On establishing historical relationships between new and old world varieties 277
- Change and stability in the use of verbal — s over time in AAVE 295
- American English for the 21st century 307
- Addresses of authors 325
- Subject index 327
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- For Manfred Görlach on the occasion of his 60th birthday 1
- Publications by Manfred Görlach 7
- Introduction 15
-
I. General and comparative studies
- Types of English heteronyms 19
- Zero coming to naught 27
- The progressive and habitual aspects in non-standard Englishes 33
- Colonisation, migration, and functions of English 47
- British English and International English — two debatable terms 59
- Passive-like constructions in English-based and other creoles 71
- A sub-text of the sixties 87
- The unknown Englishes? Testing German students’ability to identify varieties of English 93
-
II. The British Isles
- “Oh dearie me!” 109
- High-frequency variables in dialect texts 125
- Irish English and Word English 139
- Ayrshire as a linguistic area 159
- The spelling of Scots 173
- Ma language is disgraceful 185
- The rediscovery of the Ulster Scots language 211
- On some plant names in Britain and beyond 227
- The use of non-literary manuscript texts for the study of dialect lexis 235
-
III. North America
- When did Southern American English begin? 255
- On establishing historical relationships between new and old world varieties 277
- Change and stability in the use of verbal — s over time in AAVE 295
- American English for the 21st century 307
- Addresses of authors 325
- Subject index 327