Chapters in this book

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