| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 713 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Studies in English language
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Studies in English language.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 671-691) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures, maps and tables; Contributors; Foreword; Introduction; 1 Dialects of English and their transportation; 2 Scots and Scottish English; 3 Development and diffusion of Irish English; 4 The emergence of American English: evidence from seventeenth-century records in New England; 5 The language of transported Londoners: third-person-singular present-tense markers in depositions from Virginia and the Bermudas, 1607-1624; 6 Remnant dialects in the coastal United States; 7 Back to the present: verbal -s in the (African American) English diaspora. |
| Summary |
As a result of colonisation, many varieties of English now exist around the world. Legacies of Colonial English explores the role of British dialects in both the genesis and subsequent history of postcolonial Englishes, and how it came about that many still reflect non-standard British usage from the distant past. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Commonwealth. |
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English language -- Commonwealth countries.
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English language. |
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Commonwealth countries. |
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English language -- Variation -- Commonwealth countries.
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English language -- Variation. |
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English language -- Dialects -- Commonwealth countries.
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English language -- Dialects. |
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English language -- Great Britain -- Colonies.
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Great Britain. |
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Colonies. |
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Postcolonialism -- Commonwealth countries.
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Postcolonialism. |
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Great Britain -- Colonies -- Languages.
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Language and languages. |
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Commonwealth countries -- Languages.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Hickey, Raymond, 1954-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Legacies of colonial English. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004 0521830206 0521791081 (DLC) 2003062527 (OCoLC)53013474 |
| ISBN |
0511081073 (electronic book) |
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9780511081071 (electronic book) |
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051108031X (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780511080319 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780511486920 (electronic book) |
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0511486928 (electronic book) |
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1280415517 |
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9781280415517 |
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9786610415519 |
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661041551X |
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0521830206 (Cloth) |
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0521791081 |
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9780521791083 |
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9780521830201 |
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