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Apr 8, 2021 · The History of American English. The history of the American English began with the first massive migration of the British settlers. Having arrived on the American continent, they found themselves in a vastly different environment from the one they’d known, filled with plants and animals that didn’t exist in Europe.
Jul 20, 2023 · Chapter 1 explores early sources of American vocabulary, including Native American languages, contributions from other European languages, and repurposed English, as well as expressions that grew out of the land, such as blaze a trail and pull up stakes. It describes the Early Modern English spoken by the seventeenth-century colonists, and traces the changes that took place in the language ...
Editors' introduction. This chapter explores the origins and history of American English, with an underlying focus on its linguistic diversity. Guaiacum, taken from the Taino language in the Bahamas in 1533, was the first American word to enter the English language. But, as Richard W. Bailey notes, English speakers migrating to the North ...
- Richard W. Bailey
- 2004
Dec 1, 2003 · . “`The Black Men Has Wives and Sweet Harts [and Third Person Plural -s] Jest Like the White Men': Evidence for Verbal -s from Written Documents on Nineteenth-Century African American Speech.” Language Variation and Change
- Michael Montgomery
- 2003
Jul 20, 2023 · Abstract. The United States of English tells the story of American speech from its earliest beginnings to its current state. Topics covered include the following: the foundations of American English, beginning with the earliest word adoptions; the origins of regional dialects; how the vocabulary developed; an exploration of American slang and language creation outside the mainstream, including ...
- Rosemarie Ostler
Jul 4, 2017 · By the time the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776, carefully composed in the richly-worded language of the day, did colonial Americans—who after all were British before they decided to switch to become American—really sound all that different from their counterparts in the mother country? If you believe historical reenactments ...
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In this excerpt from Foundations for Multlingualism in Education: from Principles to Practice (Caslon, 2011), Ester de Jong shares an overview of the history of language policy in the United States. "Immigrant Era: Focus on Assimilation" discusses the debate around language and language instruction at the beginning of the 20th century, in the ...
