East Anglian English by Jacek Fisiak, Peter Trudgill, C J Jon... - 9780859915717

East Anglian EnglishAuthor(s): Jacek Fisiak, Peter Trudgill, C J Jones, David Britain, Gillis Kristensson, Helena Raumolin-Brunberg, Jacek Fisiak, K R Lodge, Karl Inge Sandred, Laura Wright\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: D.S. Brewer\nISBN-13: 9780859915717, 978-0859915717\nSynopsis\nStudies of the very earliest form of language which can be called English, and its later influence.\n\nEast Anglia - the easternmost area of England - was probably home to the first-ever form of language which can be called English. East Anglian English has had a very considerable input into the formation of Standard English, and contributed importantly to the development of American English and (to a lesser extent) Southern Hemisphere Englishes; it has also experienced multilingualism on a remarkable scale. However, it has received little attention from linguistic scholars over the years, and this volume provides an overdue assessment. The articles, by leA