Language in the British Isles / by PALCI EBSCO books

Table of Contents: “…. -- Northern Irish English / Kevin McCafferty -- Southern Irish English / Raymond Hickey -- English in Wales / Robert Penhallurick -- English on the Isle of Man / Andrew Hamer -- English in the Channel Islands / Heinrich Ramisch -- The history of the Celtic languages in the British Isles / Paul Russell -- Gaelic / Kenneth MacKinnon -- Irish / Pádraig Ó Riagáin -- Welsh / Martin Ball -- Multilingualism / Mark Gibson -- Caribbean creoles and Black English / Mark Sebba -- Indic languages / Mike Reynolds and Mahendra Verma -- Chinese / Li Wei -- European immigrant languages / Penelope Gardner-Chloros -- Sign languages / Bencie Woll and Rachel Sutton-Spence -- Channel Island French / Mari C. …”
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Words and dictionaries from the British Isles in historical perspective / by PALCI EBSCO books

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Index and finding list of serials published in the British Isles, 1789-1832. by Ward, William Smith, 1907-

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A comparative grammar of British English dialects : agreement, gender, relative clauses / by PALCI EBSCO books

Table of Contents: “…The Freiburg English Dialect Project and corpus / Bernd Kortmann, Susanne Wagner -- Relative clauses in English dialects of the British Isles / Tanja Hermann -- "Some do and some doesn't" : verbal concord variation in the north of the British Isles / Lukas Pietsch -- Gender in English pronouns : southwest England / Susanne Wagner…”
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Centres and peripheries : metropolitan and non-metropolitan journalism in the twenty first century / by PALCI EBSCO books

Table of Contents: “…TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; THE CHANGING WORLD OF NEWS; THE BRITISH ISLES; FROM THE PERIPHERY TO THE CORE; THOSE POST-DEVOLUTION, FALLING REVENUES BLUES; WHAT'S NEWS IN WALES?…”
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Sociolinguistics. an international handbook of the science of language and society = Soziolinguistik. by PALCI EBSCO books

Table of Contents: “…Literature (selected); 170. The British Isles / Die Britischen Inseln; 1. Historical developments; 2. …”
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Attitudes to endangered languages : identities and policies / by Sallabank, Julia, PALCI EBSCO books

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Pragmatic markers in Irish English / by PALCI EBSCO books

Table of Contents: “…Previous research on like; 2.1 Like in the British Isles; 2.2 Like in Irish English; 2.3 The discourse-pragmatic functions of like; 2.4 Pragmatic functions and clausal positioning; 3. …”
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English as a contact language / by PALCI EBSCO books

Table of Contents: “…4.5 On simplification in Standard English5 English as a contact language in the British Isles; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Archaeological, demographic and historical evidence for contact with Celtic; 5.3 Three case studies of Celtic influence in English; 5.3.1 The Northern Subject Rule; 5.3.2 The development of the self-forms as intensifiers and reflexives; 5.3.3 Third-person singular en /n/; 5.4 Conclusion; 6 English as a contact language in Ireland and Scotland; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 The case for contact; 6.3 Generalizations concerning contact; 6.3.1 When does contact-induced change appear?…”
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