Description |
1 online resource (viii, 135 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Series |
Edinburgh textbooks on the English language |
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Edinburgh textbooks on the English language.
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Contents |
Accent, dialect, language and variety -- Home and colony -- Colonial lag -- Dialect mixing -- English becomes a world language -- The spread of English -- Models of English -- English in Scotland and Ireland -- Vocabulary -- Borrowing -- Coining -- The results -- Grammar -- Morphology -- Syntax -- Spelling -- Lexical distributional differences -- Variation in the system -- Pronunciation -- Describing varieties of English -- Input varieties -- Influences from contact languages -- Influences from other colonies -- Influences from later immigrants -- Influences from world English -- Differences between varieties -- The revenge of the colonised -- Vocabulary -- Grammar -- Pronunciation -- Becoming independent -- British Englishes -- North American Englishes -- Southern hemisphere Englishes -- The break-up of English? -- Standards in the colonies -- Moving away from the standard in vocabulary -- Moving away from the standard in grammar -- Moving away from the standard in pronunciation |
Summary |
This study looks at native speaker varieties of English, considering how and why they differ in terms of their pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary and spelling. It shows how the major varieties of English have developed and why similar causes have given rise to different effects |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-132) and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
English language -- Dialects.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General.
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English language -- Dialects
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Taalvariatie.
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Engels.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
0585441936 |
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9780585441931 |
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9781474400459 |
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1474400450 |
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