English in the Southern United States

by Edited by Stephen J. Nagle , Sara L. Sanders

• ISBN13: 9780521172639
• ISBN10: 0521172632
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-12-16
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The English of the Southern United States is possibly the most studied of any regional variety of any language. However, most, if not all, books about Southern American English have been directed almost exclusively toward scholars already working in the field. Written by a team of experts, many of them internationally known, this volume provides a broad overview of the foundations of, and current research on, language variation in the Southern United States.

Table of Contents

Introduction

The origins of southern American English

Shakespeare in the coves and hollows? Toward a history of southern English

Eight grammatical features of southern US speech present in early modern London prison narratives

The shared ancestry of African-American and American white southern Englishes: some speculations dictated by history

The complex grammatical history of African-American and white vernaculars in the South

Grammatical features of southern speech: yall, might could, and fixin to Cynthia Bernstein

Sounding southern: a look at the phonology of English in the South

Vowel shifting in the southern states

Enclave dialect communities in the South

Urbanization and the evolution of southern American English

The Englishes of southern

Features and uses of southern style

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