Issues in Early American English: Using evidence from the journal of Madam Knight

Autor:	Daniel Brink
Rok vydání:	1994
Předmět:	Literature Modern English History business.industry American English language Knight General Medicine Madam business language.human_language
Zdroj:	American Journal of Germanic Linguistics and Literatures. 6:199-210
ISSN:	2163-2030 1040-8207
DOI:	10.1017/s1040820700001475
Popis:	A much underused resource in the study of Early American English is the anecdotal commentaries provided by the rather large number of contemporary journals which often provide evidence about an important issue in Early American English. This paper addresses the question of “leveling” in Colonial American English: did it take place, and, if so, when, where, and in what form, and shows how at least one contemporary journal provides rather impressive indications of the presence of strong, entrenched dialect differences at the turn ot the 18th century, suggesting that leveling, at least on the scale sometimes assumed by modern commentators, had not occurred by Madam Knight's day.
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