List of contributors

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. List of contributors ix
5. Linguistic evaluation of earlier texts 1
6. Non-standard language in earlier English 15
7. Assessing non-standard writing in lexicography 43
8. Northern English in Writing 61
9. Southern English in writing 81
10. The distinctiveness of Scots 99
11. Irish English in early modern drama 121
12. ‘ [H]ushed and lulled full chimes for pushed and pulled ’ 139
13. Dialect literature and English in the USA 163
14. Written sources for Canadian English 197
15. Earlier Caribbean English and Creole in writing 223
16. Earliest St Helenian English in writing 245
17. An abundant harvest to the philologer’? 263
18. A peculiar language’ 295
19. Describing and complaining 349
20. Feature index 365
21. Name index 367
22. Subject index 371