The History of Late Modern Englishes (eBook)

1. Into the middle of things

2. 'Ascertaining English': the eighteenth century

3. The nineteenth century: English, standard and non-standard

4 A short interlude about variety

5. 'A tongue of small reach': England

6. 'A tongue of small reach': Wales, Scotland, Ireland

7. 'Immigrants goes to America': English in North America

8. A world apart?: Australia and New Zealand

9. Wider still and wider

10. Pidgins, Creoles, and Tok Pisin: a 'ghastly mutilated English'?

11. Worldwide

12. English: a language with a past . . . and a future?

Glossary

References

Index