Real English : The Grammar of English Dialects in the British Isles

Editors' preface. Acknowledgements. Part 1: Dialect 'n Education. Chapter 1. Syntactic variation in non-standard dialects: Background issues. Chapter 2. Sociolinguistics in the classroom: Exploring linguistic diversity. Chapter 3. Urban British dialect grammar: The question of dialect levelling. Part 11: Regional variation in English grammar: Case studies. Chapter 4. The grammar of Scottish English. Chapter 5. The grammar of Irish English. Chapter 6. The grammar of Tyneside and Northumbrian English. Chapter 7. The grammar of Southern British English. Part Ill: Resources. Chapter 8. A directory of English dialect resources: The English counties.