Table of Contents

How to Use This Book.  1. Studying English Dialects  2. Posh and Less Posh Dialects  3. English in Many Shapes and Forms  4. Dialects – The Old and the New  5. Dialect Maps  6. What Dialect Maps Can Tell Us  7. How Dialect Boundaries Get to be Where They Are  8. Spot Your Dialect Area  9. Present Tense Verbs  10. Different Dialects, Different Grammar  11. Dialect Grammar – The Old and the New  12. Overdoing Things.  Further Reading

About the Author

Peter Trudgill is Chair of English Linguistics at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland and an important figure in dialectology.

Reviews

' ...Trudgill successfully distills the relatively complex field of dialectology down to the bare minimum for beginners.' - Linguist List