Dialects of English

What is the difference between We goes to Bristol, and We do go to Bristol? Why do some English speakers say I'm gonna get some money? This major collection consists of 15 articles by an international group of linguists and 7 essays by the editors, tackling a broad range of issues and representing some of the best and most recent work in English dialect grammar.

Sources Maps Acknowledgements 1. English dialect grammar 2. Pronouns and pronominal systems in English dialects 3. The personal dative in Appalachian speech, Donna Christian 4. Demonstrative adjectives and pronouns in a Devonshire dialect, Martin Harris 5. The actuation problem for gender change in Wessex versus Newfoundland, Harold Paddock 6. Verb systems in English dialects 7. Variation in the use of "ain't" in an urban English dialect, Jenny Cheshire 8. Double modals in Hawick Scots,Keith Brown 9. On grammatical diffusion in Somerset folk speech, Ossi Ihalainen 10. Variation in the lexical verb in inner-Sydney English, Edina Eisikovits 11. Aspects in English dialects 12. Periphrasic "do" in affirmative sentences in the dialect of East Somerset, Ossi Ihalainen 13. Preverbal "done" in Alabam and elsewhere, Crawford Feagin 14. Conservatism versus substratal transfer in Irish English, John Harris 15. Non-finite verb forms in English dialects 16. Transitivity and intransitivity in the dialects of the south-west of England, Jean-Marc Gachelin 17. Toward a description of "a"-prefixing in Appalachian English, Walt Wolfram 18. A grammatical continuum for (ing), Ann Houston 19. Adverbials in English dialects 20. Affirmative "any more" in present-day American English, Walter H.Eitner 21. The boundaries of a grammar - inter-dialectal reactions to positive "anymore", William Labov 22. Dialect and grammar - data and theory