Dossena Marina, Dury Richard, Gotti Maurizio (Eds.). English Historical Linguistics 2006: Volume III: Geo-Historical Variation in English

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2008. — 223 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 297).Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21–25 August 2006The papers collected in this volume were first presented at the 14th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (Bergamo, 2006). Alongside studies of syntax, morphology, lexis and semantics, published in two sister volumes, many innovative contributions focused on geo-historical variation in English. A carefully peer-reviewed selection, including two plenary lectures, appears here in print for the first time, bearing witness to the increasing scholarly interest in varieties of English other than so-called ‘standard’ English. In all the contributions, well-established methods of historical dialectology combine with new theoretical approaches, in an attempt to shed more light on phenomena that have hitherto remained unexplored, or have only just begun to be investigated. Perceptual dialectology is also taken into consideration, and state-of-the-art tools, such as electronic corpora and atlases, are employed consistently, ensuring the methodological homogeneity of the contributions.The early Middle English scribe: Sprach er wie er schrieb? - Margaret Laing
Essex/Suffolk scribes and their language in fifteenth-century London - Lister M. Matheson
Middle English word geography: Methodology and applications illustrated - María José Carrillo Linares and Edurne Garrido Anes
Northern Middle English: Towards telling the full story - Julia Fernández Cuesta and Nieves Rodríguez Ledesma
The origins of the Northern Subject Rule - Nynke de Haas
Dynamic dialectology and social networks - Mieko Ogura and William S-Y. Wang
The Celtic hypothesis hasn't gone away: New perspectives on old debates - Markku Filppula
On the trail of "intolerable Scoto-Hibernic jargon": Ulster English, Irish English and dialect hygiene in William Carleton's Traits and stories of the Irish peasantry (First Series, 1830) - Kevin McCafferty
Exceptions to sound change and external motivation - Raymond Hickey