References

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The following titles provide a small selection of established sources of information on the history of English, dialectology and sociolinguistics.

2

Bailey, Richard W. & Jay L. Robinson, eds, (1973). Varieties of Present-Day English. New York: MacMilan, London: Collier MacMillan.

3

Baugh, Albert C. (1957). A History of the English Language. (Second edition; first edition 1935.) London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd.

4

Brown, Gillian (1972). Phonological Rules and Dialect Variation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

5

Bynon, Theodora (1977). Historical Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

6

Chambers, J. K. & Peter Trudgill (1980). Dialectology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

7

Ekwall, Eilert (1965). Historische Neuenglische Laut- und Formenlehre. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.

8

Fishman, Joshua A. Sociolinguistics: a brief introduction. Rowley, Mass.: Newbury House Publishers.

9

Giglioli, Pier Paolo, ed. (1972). Language and social context. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.

10

Hudson, Richard A. (1980). Sociolinguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

11

Hughes, Arthur & Peter Trudgill (1979). English Accents and Dialects: An Introduction to Social and Regional Varieties of British English. London: Edward Arnold.

12

Keiler, Allan R., ed. (1972). A Reader in Historical and Comparative Linguistics. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.

13

Klein, Wolfgang & Dieter Wunderlich, eds. (1972). Aspekte der Soziolinguistik. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Athenäum.

14

Grundzüge der Geschichte der englischen Sprache. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft.

15

Labov, William (1966). The social stratification of English in New York City. Washington, D.C.: Center for Applied Linguistics.

16

Labov, William (1972). Language in the Inner City. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

17

Labov, William (1972). Sociolinguistic Patterns. Oxford: Blackwell.

18

Lehmann, Winfred P. (1973). Historical Linguistics: An Introduction. (Second Edition; first edition 1962.) New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston.

19

Lightfoot, David (1979). Principles of Diachronic Syntax. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

20

Marckwardt, Albert H. & Randolph Quirk (1964). A Common Language. Britisch and American English. The British Broadcasting Corporation and The Voice of America.

21

Pyles, Thomas (1971). The Origins and Development of the English Langugage. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc.

22

A History of English. London: Methuen.

23

Todd, Loreto (1974). Pidgins and Creoles. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

24

Trudgill, Peter (1974). Sociolinguistics: An Introduction. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.

25

Trudgill, Peter, ed. (1978). Sociolinguistic Patterns in British English. London: Edward Arnold.

26

Trudgill, Peter (1986). Dialects in Contact. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

27

Viereck, Wolfgang (1975). Regionale und soziale Erscheinungsformen des britischen und amerikanischen Englisch. Tübingen: Niemeyer.

28

Wells, John C. (1982) Accents of English 1: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

29

Wells, John C. (1982) Accents of English 2: The British Isles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

30

Wells, John C. (1982) Accents of English 3: Beyond the British Isles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

31

Wright, Joseph (1905). The English Dialect Grammar, comprising the Dialects of England, of the Shetland and Orkney Islands, and of those Parts of Scotland, Ireland & Wales where English is Habitually Spoken. Oxford: Clarendon Press.