Michael Montgomery
List of John Benjamins publications in which Michael Montgomery is involved.
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
2006 8. It’ll kill ye or cure ye, one: The history and function of alternative one — antecedents of the Midland Language Variation and Change in the American Midland: A New Look at ‘Heartland’ English, Murray, Thomas E. and Beth Lee Simon (eds.), pp. 151–161 | Chapter
2006 The morphology and syntax of Ulster Scots English World-Wide 27:3, pp. 295–329 | Article
Ulster differs from the other three historical provinces of Ireland in the presence of Ulster Scots, an off-shoot of Lowland Scots brought principally from the Western and Central Lowlands of Scotland in the 17th century through a plantation established by King James I and through periodic… read more
1999 Eighteenth-Century Sierra Leone English: Another Exported Variety of African American English English World-Wide 20:1, pp. 1–34 | Article
This essay examines the language of an expatriate community as found in letters and petitions written by African Americans who migrated to Sierra Leone by way of Nova Scotia in 1792. These documents provide some of the earliest first-hand evidence of African American English and contribute to… read more
1997 The rediscovery of the Ulster Scots language Englishes around the World: Studies in honour of Manfred Görlach, Schneider, Edgar W. (ed.), pp. 211–226 | Article
1997 A Tale of Two Georges: The Language of Irish Indian Traders in Colonial North America Focus on Ireland, Kallen, Jeffrey L. (ed.), pp. 227–254 | Article
1996 What was verbal — s in 19th-century African American English? Focus on the USA, Schneider, Edgar W. (ed.), pp. 211–230 | Article
1991 The Linguistic Value of the Ex-Slave Recordings The Emergence of Black English: Text and commentary, Bailey, Guy, Natalie Maynor and Patricia Cukor-Avila (eds.), pp. 173–190 | Article
1990 The Phonology of the Lost Cause: The English of the Confederados in Brazil English World-Wide 11:2, pp. 195–216 | Article
1989 Choosing between that and it Language Change and Variation, Fasold, Ralph W. and Deborah Schiffrin (eds.), pp. 241–254 | Article
1989 Exploring the Roots of Appalachian English English World-Wide 10:2, pp. 227–278 | Article