1st Edition

A History of American English

By J.L. Dillard Copyright 1992
    268 Pages
    by Routledge

    268 Pages
    by Routledge

    This impressive volume provides a chronological, narrative account of the development of American English from its earliest origins to the present day.

    Chapter 1 On the background of American English; Chapter 2 Early diversity, levelling and rediversification; Chapter 3 The development of Black English; Chapter 4 The development of Southern; Chapter 5 The early history of the Gulf Corridor; Chapter 6 Westward, not without complication; Chapter 7 Regionalization and de-regionalization; Chapter 8 Deruralization: the small town, the city and the suburbs;

    Biography

    Authored by Dillard, J. L.