Research on non-standard dialects of British English

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents 1
3. Introduction 3
4. The voicing of initial fricatives in Middle English 5
5. Sociolinguistic aspects of place-names 29
6. The sound system of a West Midland dialect 45
7. Spatial aspects of linguistic change in Surrey, Kent and Sussex 79
8. Research on non-standard dialects of British English 97
9. Amn’t I , or the hole in the pattern 141
10. He took the bottle and put ‘n in his pocket 153
11. Tyneside syntax 163
12. Use and non-use of prepositions in spatial expressions in the dialect of Cambridgeshire 179
13. Welsh English 213
14. Fieldwork for the Survey of Anglo-Welsh Dialects 223
15. The data of the Survey of English Dialects computerised 235
16. On the interrelationship of British and American English 247
17. Index 301
18. Author’s Addresses 303