In:Keeping in Touch: Emigrant letters across the English-speaking world
Edited by Raymond Hickey
[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics 10] 2019
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 28 November 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/ahs.10.toc
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Table of contents
Preface
List of contributors
Chapter 1Mining emigrant correspondence for linguistic insights
Raymond Hickey
Part IThe language of emigrant correspondence
Chapter 2Wisconsin immigrant letters: German transfer to Wisconsin English
Angela Bagwell
Samantha Litty
Mike Olson
Chapter 3‘I hope you will excuse my bad writing’: Shall vs. will in the 1830s Petworth Emigration to Canada Corpus (PECC)
Stefan Dollinger
Chapter 4Singular, plural, or collective? Grammatical flexibility and the definition of identity in the correspondence of nineteenth-century Scottish emigrants
Marina Dossena
Part IIThe language of the Irish emigrant experience
Chapter 5Homesickness, recollections and reunions: Topics and emotions in a corpus of female Irish emigrant correspondence
Emma Moreton
Chris Culy
Chapter 6‘I have not time to say more at present’ Negating lexical have in Irish English
Kevin McCafferty
Chapter 7‘Matt & Mrs Connor is with me now. They are only beginning to learn the work of the camp’: Irish emigrants writing from Argentina
Carolina P. Amador-Moreno
Chapter 8Grammatical variation in nineteenth-century Irish Australian letters
Raymond Hickey
Chapter 9‘[S]eas may divide and oceans roll between but Friends is Friends whatever intervene’. Emigrant letters in New Zealand
Dania Jovanna Bonness
Part IIIVernacular correspondence: Widening the scope
Chapter 10‘[T]his is all answer soon’: African American vernacular letters from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
Lucia Siebers
Chapter 11Morphosyntactic features in Earlier African American English: A qualitative assessment of semi-literate letters
Alexander Kautzsch
Chapter 12Memoirs from Central America: A linguistic analysis of personal recollections of West Indian laborers in the construction of the Panama Canal
Stephanie Hackert
Index
