LINGUIST List 19.692

Sat Mar 01 2008

TOC: English World-Wide 29/1 (2008)

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        1.    Paul Peranteau, English World-Wide Vol 29, No 1 (2008)


Message 1: English World-Wide Vol 29, No 1 (2008)
Date: 27-Feb-2008
From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com>
Subject: English World-Wide Vol 29, No 1 (2008)
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Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/

Journal Title: English World-Wide Volume Number: 29 Issue Number: 1 Issue Date: 2008


Main Text:

English World-Wide 29:1

2008. 122 pp.

Table of contents

Articles

Scots English and the English-lexifier creole relativizer weIan F. Hancock 1–14

The localization of global linguistic variantsIsabelle Buchstaller 15–44

Letter Perfect: The Present Perfect in early African American correspondenceGerard Van Herk 45–69

Public and academic understandings about language: The intellectual history ofEbonicsWilliam A. Kretzschmar, Jr. 70–95

Book reviews

William Labov, Sharon Ash and Charles Boberg. 2006. The Atlas of North AmericanEnglish. Phonetics, Phonology and Sound Change. A Multimedia Reference ToolReviewed by Edgar W. Schneider 97–101

John Algeo. 2006. British or American English? A Handbook of Word and GrammarPatternsReviewed by Brigitta Mittmann 102–106

Jan Svartvik and Geoffrey Leech. 2006. English. One Tongue, Many VoicesReviewed by Edgar W. Schneider 107–110

Lynda Mugglestone, ed. 2006. The Oxford History of EnglishReviewed by Edgar W. Schneider 111–114

Shorter notice

Michael Montgomery. 2006. From Ulster to America. The Scotch-Irish Heritage ofAmerican EnglishEdgar W. Schneider


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