For Manfred Gorlach on the occasion of his 60th birthday

Edgar W. Schneider

Publications by Manfred Gorlach

Christoph Stephan

Introduction

Edgar W. Schneider

Section A: General and comparative studies

Types of English heteronyms

John Algeo

Zero coming to naught

Wolf-Dietrich Bald

The progressive and habitual aspects in non-standard Englishes

Jean-Marc Gachelin

Colonisation, migration, and functions of English

Anthea Fraser Gupta

British English and International English--two debatable terms

Klaus Hansen

Passive-like constructions in English-based and other creoles

John Holm et al.

A sub-text of the sixties

John Spencer

The unknown Englishes? Testing German students' ability to identify varieties of English

Christoph Stephan

Section B: The British Isles

"Oh dearie me!": Dramatic rhetoric and linguistic subversion in the Scottish situation comedy The High Life

Ian Brown

Katja Lenz

High-frequency variables in dialect texts: in, on and of in Craven (West Riding of Yorkshire) on the basis of two dialogues from 1828

Beat Glauser

Irish English and World English: Lexical perspectives

Jeffrey L. Kallen

Ayrshire as a linguistic area

Ronald Macaulay

The spelling of Scots: A difficulty

J. Derrick McClure

Ma language is, disgraceful: Tom Leonard's Glasgow dialect poems

Colin Milton

The rediscovery of the Ulster Scots language

Michael Montgomery

On some plant names in Britain and beyond

Wolfgang Viereck

The use of non-literary manuscript texts for the study of dialect lexis

Edmund Weiner

Section C: North America

When did Southern American English begin?

Guy Bailey

On establishing historical relationships between new and old world varieties: Habitual aspect and Newfoundland Vernacular English

Sandra Clarke

Change and stability in the use of verbal -s over time in AAVE

Patricia Cukor-Avila

American English for the 21st century

William A. Kretzschmar, Jr.

Addresses of authors

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