In:Processes of Change: Studies in Late Modern and Present-Day English
Edited by Sandra Jansen and Lucia Siebers
[Studies in Language Variation 21] 2019
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 13 August 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/silv.21.toc
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Table of contents
Chapter 1.Introduction
Sandra Jansen
Part I.Processes of change in Late Modern English
Chapter 2.Enregisterment and historical sociolinguistics
Joan Beal
Chapter 3.The obelisk and the asterisk: Early to Late Modern views on language and change
Kate Burridge
Chapter 4.A (great) deal of: Developments in 19th-century
British and Australian English
Claudia Claridge
Merja Kytö
Chapter 5.‘but a[h] Hellen d[ea]r sure you have it more in your power in every
respect than I have’: Discourse marker sure in Irish English
Kevin McCafferty
Carolina P. Amador-Moreno
Chapter 6.Scotland’s contribution to English vocabulary in Late Modern
times
Marina Dossena
Chapter 7.Early immigrant English: Midwestern English before the dust settled
Samantha Litty
Jennifer Mercer
Joseph Salmons
Chapter 8.African American English in nineteenth-century Liberia: Processes of change in a transported dialect
Lucia Siebers
Part II.Processes of change in Present Day English
Chapter 9.Attitudes to flat adverbs and English usage advice
Morana Lukač
Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
Chapter 10.The modal auxiliary verb may and change in Irish
English
John Kirk
Chapter 11.Levelling processes and social change in a peripheral
community: Prevocalic /r/ in West Cumbria
Sandra Jansen
Chapter 12.The goose vowel in South African English with special
reference to Coloured communities in 5 cities
Rajend Mesthrie
Simone Wills
Chapter 13.Borders and language
J.K. (Jack) Chambers
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