Varieties of English / edited by Alexander Bergs, Laurel Brinton. - First Edition. - Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2017. - 405 pages cm. - The history of English; volume 5 .

"This volume is one of the first detailed expositions of the history of different varieties of English. It explores language variation and varieties of English from an historical perspective, covering theoretical topics such as diffusion and supraregionalization as well as concrete descriptions of the internal and external historical developments of more than a dozen varieties of English"--

9783110522792 (paperback)

2017047935


English language--Variation--History.
English language--Diatects--History.
English language--History.
Historical linguistics
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.

PE1074.7 / V27 2017

427 / BER