East Anglian English

by Fisiak, Jacek

• ISBN13: 9780859915717
• ISBN10: 0859915719
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-06-01
• Publisher: Ds Brewer

Summary

East Anglia - the easternmost area of England - was probably home to the first-ever form of language which can be called English. East Anglian English has had a very considerable input into the formation of Standard English, and contributed importantly to the development of American English and (to a lesser extent) Southern Hemisphere Englishes; it has also experienced multilingualism on a remarkable scale. However, it has received little attention from linguistic scholars over the years, and this volume provides an overdue assessment. The articles, by leading scholars in the field, cover all aspects of the English of East Anglia from its beginnings to the present day; topics include place names, non-standard grammar, dialect phonology, dialect contact, language contact, and a host of other issues of descriptive, theoretical, historical and sociolinguistic interest and importance.Professor JACEK FISIAK teaches in the Department of English at the Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland; Professor PETER TRUDGILL is Chair of English Linguistics at the University of Fribourg. Contributors: PETER TRUDGILL, JACEK FISIAK, KARL INGE SANDRED, GILLIS KRISTENSSON, LAURA WRIGHT, CLAIRE JONES, TERTU NEVALAINEN, HELENA RAUMOLIN-BRUNBERG, KEN LODGE, DAVID BRITAIN, PATRICIA POUSSA

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
Preface	ix
Jacek Fisiak
Peter Trudgill
Modern East Anglia as a dialect area	1	(12)
Peter Trudgill
Old East Anglian: a Problem in Old English dialectology	13	(26)
Jacek Fisiak
East Anglian place-names: sources of lost dialect	39	(24)
Karl Inge Sandred
Language in contact: Old East Saxon and East Anglian	63	(8)
Gillis Kristensson
Sociolects in fourteenth-century London	71	(8)
Gillis Kristensson
Some morphological features of the Norfolk guild certificates of 1388/9: an exercise in variation	79	(84)
Laura Wright
Elaboration in practice: the use of English in medieval East Anglian medicine	163	(16)
Claire Jones
Third-person singular zero: African-American English, East Anglian dialects and Spanish persecution in the Low Countries	179	(8)
Peter Trudgill
Chapters in the social history of East Anglian English: the case of the third-person singular	187	(18)
Tertu Nevalainen
Helena Raumolin-Brunberg
Peter Trudgill
The modern reflexes of some Middle English vowel contrasts in Norfolk and Norwich	205	(12)
Ken Lodge
Welcome to East Anglia!: two major dialect `boundaries' in the Fens	217	(26)
David Britain
Syntactic change in north-west Norfolk	243	(18)
Patricia Poussa
Index of names	261