American English Dialectology: Alternatives for the Southwest

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. General Introduction 1
4. PART ONE. Native English-Speaking Immigrants
5. Introduction 11
6. British Recognition of American Speech in the Eighteenth Century 15
7. The Rise of the American English Vowel Pattern 37
8. American English Dialectology: Alternatives for the Southwest 71
9. PART TWO. The Sea and the American Frontier
10. Introduction 95
11. Sea Terms Come Ashore 101
12. Larrupin': From Nautical Word to Multiregionalism 131
13. New York City and the Antebellum South: The Maritime Connection 135
14. Slang and Words with their Origin on the River 143
15. Sailors' and Cowboys' Folklore in Two Popular Classics 147
16. The Origin of Mott in Anglo-Texan Vegetational Terminology 163
17. Communication in a Frontier Society 175
18. PART THREE. Immigration and Migration
19. Introduction 183
20. The American Language 191
21. The Study of the English of the Pennsylvania Germans 195
22. The Yiddish is Showing 205
23. The Ethnolectal English of American Gypsies 257
24. Spanglish: Language Contact in Puerto Rico 265
25. The Melting Pot and Language Maintenance in South Slavic Immigrant Groups 277
26. PART FOUR. Black English
27. Introduction 289
28. The Language Behavior of Negroes and Whites 297
29. Texan Gullah: The Creole English of the Brackettville Afro-Seminoles 305
30. Black English near its Roots: The Transplanted West African Creoles 335
31. Cut-Eye and Suck-Teeth: African Words and Gestures in New World Guise 347
32. The Creole 'Copula' that Highlighted the World 367
33. Have/Got in the Speech of Anglo and Black Children 377
34. Interrelatedness of Certain Deviant Grammatical Structures in Negro Nonstandard Dialects 393
35. PART FIVE. Pidgin English
36. Introduction 403
37. American Indian Pidgin English: Attestations and Grammatical Peculiarities 417
38. Attestations of American Indian Pidgin English in Fiction and Nonfiction 427
39. Categories of Transformations in Second Language Acquisition 433
40. Chinese Telegrams 447
41. References to Introductions 461