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In:Englishes around the World: Studies in honour of Manfred Görlach
Edited by Edgar W. Schneider
[Varieties of English Around the World G18] 1997
► pp. v–vi

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Published online: 26 June 1997
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Table of contents

For Manfred Görlach on the occasion of his 60th birthday1
Publications by Manfred Görlach7
Introduction15
I. General and comparative studies
Types of English heteronyms19
Zero coming to naught27
The progressive and habitual aspects in non-standard Englishes33
Colonisation, migration, and functions of English47
British English and International English — two debatable terms59
Passive-like constructions in English-based and other creoles71
A sub-text of the sixties87
The unknown Englishes? Testing German students’ability to identify varieties of English93
II. The British Isles
“Oh dearie me!”: Dramatic rhetoric and linguistic subversion in the Scottish situation comedy The High Life109
High-frequency variables in dialect texts: in, on and of Craven (West Riding of Yorkshire) on the basis of two dialogues from 1828125
Irish English and Word English: Lexical perspectives139
Ayrshire as a linguistic area159
The spelling of Scots: A difficulty173
Ma language is disgraceful: Tom Leonard’s Glasgow dialect poems185
The rediscovery of the Ulster Scots language211
On some plant names in Britain and beyond227
The use of non-literary manuscript texts for the study of dialect lexis235
III. North America
When did Southern American English begin?255
On establishing historical relationships between new and old world varieties: Habitual aspect and Newfoundland Vernacular English277
Change and stability in the use of verbal — s over time in AAVE295
American English for the 21st century307
Addresses of authors325
Subject index327
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