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Tables of Contents for The Cambridge History of the English Language
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of contributors
ix
General Editor's preface
xi
Volume Editor's preface
xv
Acknowledgments
xxviii
Explanatory notes
xxix
Pronunciation symbols
xxx
External History
1
58
John Algeo
History, external and internal
1
3
Periods in the history of American English
4
2
The Colonial period
6
14
The National period
20
17
The International period
37
22
British and American, Continuity and Divergence
59
27
John Hurt Fisher
The continuity of English
59
1
Settlement history
59
2
Nationalism, American English, and Noah Webster
61
2
Education and culture norms
63
3
Literature, writing, and the standard
66
1
Vocabulary
67
3
Style
70
1
Pronunciation and class accent
71
7
Diversity and uniformity
78
6
British and American interrelations
84
2
British and Irish Antecedents
86
68
Michael Montgomery
Introduction
86
3
Background
89
5
Research questions and considerations
94
2
Sources of Colonial American English
96
8
Historical development of the field: paradigms of comparison and reconstruction
104
16
Drawing regional and social connections
120
16
Linguistic features
136
15
Research needs and conclusions
151
3
Contact With Other Languages
154
30
Suzanne Romaine
Pre-contact: languages before English in North America
154
3
Language in post-contact North America
157
20
Major languages of immigration
177
4
Conclusion
181
3
Americanisms
184
35
Frederic G. Cassidy
Joan Houston Hall
Introduction
184
1
Definitions
185
3
First additions
188
1
First colonization
189
2
English redistributed
191
2
Regional differences
193
2
The westward movement
195
4
The Webster impact
199
2
The Civil War
201
4
Settling the West
205
3
Urbanization
208
2
World War II
210
3
Black contributions
213
2
Some subject categories
215
1
Conclusion
216
3
Slang
219
34
Jonathan E. Lighter
A definition of slang
220
4
Slang and poetry
224
2
Radiations of the meanings of the term slang and of attitudes toward slang
226
11
Twentieth-century scholarship on slang
237
3
The historical development of American slang
240
9
The role of slang in American life
249
4
Dialects
253
38
Lee Pederson
Introduction
253
1
History and geography
254
3
American dialectology
257
2
Historical background
259
5
Four major American dialects
264
2
Northern dialects
266
4
Midland dialects
270
4
Southern dialects
274
6
Western dialects
280
9
Summary: major American dialects
289
2
African-American English
291
34
Salikoko S. Mufwene
What is African-American English?
291
3
Features of AAE
294
17
The development of AAE
311
10
Benefits of studying AAE
321
1
Future studies of AAE
322
3
Grammatical Structure
325
15
Ronald R. Butters
Grammatical categories
325
1
American-British grammatical differences
326
2
American nonstandard grammatical features
328
5
American standard grammatical features
333
2
Independent changes in standard American English grammar
335
5
Spelling
340
18
Richard L. Venezky
From settlement to Revolution
341
3
Orthographic authority
344
6
Spelling reform
350
2
Present-day American spelling
352
4
Conclusion
356
2
Usage
358
64
Edward Finegan
Introduction
358
7
The origins of the study of grammar in America
365
23
Closing the gap: scholars face the facts of usage
388
30
Conclusion
418
4
Canadian English
422
19
Laurel J. Brinton
Margery Fee
Introduction
422
1
Speakers of Canadian English
423
1
The study of Canadian English
424
1
Settlement history
424
2
Linguistic features of Canadian English
426
13
Conclusion
439
2
Newfoundland English
441
15
William J. Kirwin
Early Newfoundland
441
2
Settlement
443
2
West Country Newfoundland English
445
4
Anglo-Irish influence
449
1
Vocabulary
450
4
Conclusion
454
2
American English Abroad
456
41
Richard W. Bailey
Introduction
456
2
Americanism
458
2
Early American impact abroad
460
5
Lexical expansion by curiosity and cupidity
465
6
Emerging awareness of American English as a distinct variety
471
5
Cultural coherence between the colonies and Britain
476
6
Rising British anxiety and antagonism
482
4
American reaction and British counter reaction
486
7
The triumph of American English
493
4
Glossary of linguistic terms
497
19
Bibliography
516
52
Index
568