Sociolinguistic Variation and Change

I. Sociohistorical LinguisticsIntroduction: Sociohistorical linguistics 1. British vernacular dialects in the formation of American English: the case of East Anglian do2. Short 'o' in East Anglia and New England3. Sociohistorical linguistics and dialect survival: a note on another Nova Scotian enclave II. Dialect ChangeIntroduction: Dialect Change 4. Two hundred years of dedialectalisation: the East Anglian short vowel system5. New-dialect formation and dedialectisation: embryonic and vestigial variants6. Norwich revisited: recent linguistic changes in an English urban dialect III. Language Contact Introduction: Language Contact 7. Dual-source pidgins and reverse creoloids: northern perspectives on language contact8. Language contact and the function of linguistic gender9. Third-person singular zero: African American vernacular English, East Anglian dialects and Spanish persecution in the Low Countries 10. Language Contact and inherent variability: the absence of hypercorrection in East Anglian present-tense verb forms IV. Language creation and language death Introduction: Language creation and language death 11. Ausbau sociolinguistics and the perception of language status in contemporary Europe12. Ausbau sociolinguistics and identity in modern Greece13. Language maintenance and language shift: preservation versus extinction V. EnglishesIntroduction: Englishes 14. English as an endangered language 15. Standard English: what it isn't16. The sociolinguistics of modern RP