Michael Ellis
List of John Benjamins publications in which Michael Ellis is involved.
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2014 When did Southern American English really begin? Testing Bailey’s Hypothesis The Evolution of Englishes: The Dynamic Model and beyond, Buschfeld, Sarah, Thomas Hoffmann, Magnus Huber and Alexander Kautzsch (eds.), pp. 331–348 | Article
This paper uses the Corpus of American Civil War Letters, comprising several thousand documents written by minimally literate privates in the conflict, to analyze grammatical features such as you-all and fixing to. The authors respond to the proposal of Bailey (1997) that white Southern American… read more