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English in Modern Times
Taylor & Francis Ltd 2004; US$ 45.00English in Modern Times describes the development of the English language from 1700 until 1945, and argues that it is in the course of this later modern English period that the characteristics of 'modern' English evolved. more...
An Introduction to Regional Englishes
Edinburgh University Press 2010; US$ 55.00A description of regional varieties of British English, along with discussion of current research in dialectology/ variationist sociolinguistics. more...
The English Language
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 26.00This new edition tells the story of the English language from its remote ancestry to the present day. more...
Urban North-Eastern English
Edinburgh University Press 2012; US$ 96.00This is a new volume in the Dialects of English series - a series of short, accessible but authoritative books on specific dialect varieties, each written by a specialist or specialists who have done first-hand work on the variety concerned. This volume provides an overview of all aspects of north-eastern English and explores the phonetic, phonological... more...
Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 105.00A range of electronic corpora has become accessible via the WWW and CD-ROM. This coincides with improvements in standards governing the collecting, encoding and archiving of such data. This book develops similar standards for enriching and preserving 'unconventional' data': the fragmentary texts and voices left to us as accidents of history. more...
Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 110.00A range of electronic corpora is increasingly accessible via the WWW and CD-ROM. This development coincided with improved standards governing the collecting, encoding and archiving of such data. This book looks at developing similar standards for enriching and preserving unconventional data: dialects, child language and bilingual databases. more...
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