HOE and dialects texts

[Dennis R. Preston]

Wolfram is no longer out of print. It is now Wolfram and Schilling-Estes
and is improved.

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>I'm teaching "American English: History and Dialects" this summer at
>IIT after a two-year hiatus, and I'm looking for text suggestions.
>
>The students will probably only take this one linguistics course in
>their lives, so in the past I've used some decidedly un-textbooky
>things, like "The Story of English," the companion to the PBS series.
>In conjunction with that, I used Wolfram's "American Dialects," and
>actually had a nice little 8-week course that students enjoyed and
>got a lot from.
>
>Are there any new texts out there?  Wolfram is out of print, so I
>must have a new text for the survey of American dialects portion of
>the course, and I need something accessible.  I'm pretty happy with
>TSOE, but I'd be interested in a newer but still highly-accessible
>history of English, if such a thing exists.
>
>Thanks.
>
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>
>Greg
>greg at pulliam.org


Dennis R. Preston
Department of Linguistics and Languages
Michigan State University
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