Methods and Data in English Historical Dialectology (16) (Linguistic Insights) - Softcover

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The Editors: Marina Dossena is Associate Professor of English Language at the University of Bergamo. Her research interests focus on the features and origins of British varieties of English and the history of specialized discourse. Recent publications include Insights into Late Modern English, co-edited with Charles Jones (Lang 2003) and Scotticisms in Grammar and Vocabulary (2004). She is currently compiling a corpus of 19th-century Scottish correspondence and is the current editor of the Online Bibliography of Scots and Scottish English.
Roger Lass is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Honorary Research Associate in English at the University of Cape Town. His special interests are the history of English, historical linguistic theory, and its interface with evolutionary biology. His most recent publications include Historical Linguistics and Language Change (1997) and volume III of The Cambridge History of the English Language (1999). He is currently working on the Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English.