In:Transatlantic Perspectives on Late Modern English
Edited by Marina Dossena
[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics 4] 2015
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 12 February 2015
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Acknowledgementsvii
Introduction
Studying real-time change in the adverbial subjunctive: The value of the Bank of Canadian English
Political perspectives on linguistic innovation in independent America: Learning from the libraries of Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
Five Hundred Mistakes Corrected: An early American English usage guide
Transatlantic perspectives on late nineteenth-century English usage: Alford (1864) compared to White (1871)
“Provincial in England, but in common use with us”: John R. Bartlett’s Dictionary of Americanisms and the English Dialect Dictionary
“Across the ocean ferry”: Point of view, description and evaluation in nineteenth-century narrations of ocean crossings
Legitimising linguistic devices in A Cheering Voice from Upper Canada (1834)
Nineteenth-century institutional (im)politeness: Responses of the Colonial Office to letters from William Parker, 1820 settler
‘[B]ut sure its only a penny after all’: Irish English discourse marker sure
Assigned gender in a corpus of nineteenth-century correspondence among settlers in the American Great Plains
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