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Language Contacts Meet English Dialects

Studies in Honour of Markku Filppula

Edited By: Esa Penttilä

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This book presents fresh research on language contacts and dialects, celebrating the work of eminent scholar Markku Filppula. Articles explore theories, Celtic substrata in Irish and British English, and dialect in the British Isles from diverse perspectives.

This book presents a collection of fresh research on language contacts and dialects, and the interface between the two. The volume celebrates the work of…

This book presents a collection of fresh research on language contacts and dialects, and the interface between the two. The volume celebrates the work of Professor Markku Filppula, an eminent scholar in the fields of Irish English, Celtic contacts in the history of English, and language contacts and vernacular universals in nonstandard Englishes.

The articles in this volume explore theories and methods employed in the study of language contacts and variation, Celtic substrata in Irish and British English, and dialect in the British Isles. The writers’ perspectives range from cognitive processing to sociolinguistics, and from theoretical and comparative discussions to new empirical, corpus-based studies.

Dr. Esa Penttilä is Lecturer in English Language and Translation at the University of Eastern Finland. He received his PhD in English from the University of Joensuu in 2006. His main interests include idiomaticity, figurative language, and cognitive and constructional approaches to language. He is also co-editor of Filppula, Klemola, Palander & Penttilä: Dialects Across Borders (2005) and Filppula, Klemola, Palander & Penttilä: Topics in Dialectal Variation (2006).

Dr. Heli Paulasto is University Lecturer in English linguistics at the University of Eastern Finland. She specialises in English variationist research and is the author of Welsh English Syntax: Contact and Variation (2006), co-author of Filppula, Klemola and Paulasto: English and Celtic in Contact (2008), and co-editor of Filppula, Klemola and Paulasto: Vernacular Universals and Language Contacts: Evidence from Varieties of English and Beyond (2009).