1st Edition

American English 1781 - 1921

Edited By Daniel R. Davis
4056 Pages
by Routledge

This set reprints a wide range of source texts invaluable to the study of American English. Volume I contains a selection of articles chronicling the debate over Americanisms in both the American and popular British press. Additional volumes comprise several glossaries of American English that illustrate the growing creativity, autonomy and specialization of the language, as well as the linguistic... Read more
VOLUME 1 Selected Papers on American English, VOLUME 2 Glossaries of Americanisms, VOLUME 3 Words and Their Uses, Past and Present: A Study of the English Language, VOLUME 4 Every-day English: A Sequel to “Words and Their Uses”, VOLUME 5 Americanisms: The English of the New World, VOLUME 6 Plea for an American Language: or Germanic-English, Our Dictionaries and Other English Language Topics, VOLUME 7 Parts of Speech: Essays on English, VOLUME 8 The Pronunciation of Standard English in America

Biography

Daniel R. Davis