This collection tackles a broad range of issues and represents some of the most authoritative work in English dialect grammar. Dialectology is presented as a major scholarly discipline drawing creatively on such areas as linguistics, sociology, psychology, history, geography and even philosophy. An important contribution to the reader's broader understanding of the theoretical issues concerning dialectology as a whole.

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1. English dialect grammar
2. Pronouns and pronominal systems in English dialects
3. The personal dative in Appalachian speech, Donna Christian
4. Demonstrative adjectives and pronouns in a Devonshire dialect, Martin Harris
5. The actuation problem for gender change in Wessex versus Newfoundland, Harold Paddock
6. Verb systems in English dialects
7. Variation in the use of "ain't" in an urban English dialect, Jenny Cheshire
8. Double modals in Hawick Scots,Keith Brown
9. On grammatical diffusion in Somerset folk speech, Ossi Ihalainen
10. Variation in the lexical verb in inner-Sydney English, Edina Eisikovits
11. Aspects in English dialects
12. Periphrasic "do" in affirmative sentences in the dialect of East Somerset, Ossi Ihalainen
13. Preverbal "done" in Alabam and elsewhere, Crawford Feagin
14. Conservatism versus substratal transfer in Irish English, John Harris
15. Non-finite verb forms in English dialects
16. Transitivity and intransitivity in the dialects of the south-west of England, Jean-Marc Gachelin
17. Toward a description of "a"-prefixing in Appalachian English, Walt Wolfram
18. A grammatical continuum for (ing), Ann Houston
19. Adverbials in English dialects
20. Affirmative "any more" in present-day American English, Walter H.Eitner
21. The boundaries of a grammar - inter-dialectal reactions to positive "anymore", William Labov
22. Dialect and grammar - data and theory