Real English The Grammar of English Dialects in the British Isles

While it is accepted that the pronunciation of English shows wide regional differences, there is a marked tendency to under-estimate the extent of the variation in grammar that exists within the British Isles today. In addressing this problem, Real English brings together the work of a number of experts on the subject to provide a pioneer volume in the field of the grammar of spoken English.

Editors' prefaceAcknowledgementsPart I: Dialect in Education1. Syntactic variation in non-standard dialects: background issues, Jenny Cheshire and Jim Milroy2. Sociolinguistics in the classroom: exploring linguistic diversity, Jenny Cheshire and Viv Edwards3. Non-standard English and dialect levelling, Jenny Cheshire, Viv Edwards and Pamela WhittlePart II: Regional variation in English grammar: case studies4. The grammar of Scottish English, Jim Miller5. The grammar of Irish English, John Harris6. The grammar of Tyneside and Northumbrian English, Joan Beal7. The grammar of Southern British English, Viv EdwardsAppendix to part II: Glossary of grammatical termsPart III: Resources8. A directory of English dialect resources: The English counties, Viv EdwardsIndex