Stephen J. Nagle is Professor of English at Coastal Carolina University. He is author of Inferential Change and Syntactic Modality in English (1989), is editor of a monograph on political changes in eastern Europe (1992), and is author or co-author of articles on English historical syntax, auxiliary verbs in southern English, and teaching English as a second language.
Sara L. Sanders is Professor of English at Coastal Carolina University. She is the author or co-author of articles related to language use, language learning and language diversity. She was compositor of the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States (LAMSAS) for three years.
Introduction; 1. The origins of southern American English John Algeo; 2.
Shakespeare in the coves and hollows? Toward a history of southern English
Edgar Schneider; 3. Eight grammatical features of southern US speech
present in early modern London prison narratives Laura Wright; 4. The
shared ancestry of African-American and American white southern Englishes:
some speculations dictated by history Salikoko Mufwene; 5. The complex
grammatical history of African-American and white vernaculars in the South
Patricia Cukor-Avila; 6. Grammatical features of southern speech: yall,
might could, and fixin to Cynthia Bernstein; 7. Sounding southern: a look
at the phonology of English in the South George Dorrill; 8. Vowel shifting
in the southern states Crawford Feagin; 9. Enclave dialect communities in
the South Walt Wolfram; 10. Urbanization and the evolution of southern
American English Jan Tillery and Guy Bailey; 11. The Englishes of southern
Louisiana Connie Eble; 12. Features and uses of southern style Barbara
Johnstone.
