Tabla de Contenidos:
  • From sampling to publication
  • From heterogloss to dialect boundary
  • Sociocultural background of dialect areas in American English
  • The adoption of foreign words in American English
  • The historical relation of American English to British English
  • The patterning of dialect areas
  • Transplanted languages
  • Diffusion
  • The adaptation of foreign elements
  • The social dimension in area linguistics.