Most of the world’s Extraterritorial Englishes stem historically from southern English dialects - Southern England having been the most...
Texts of the past were often produced by and for people with multilingual repertoires and thus reflect ongoing and earlier language contact situations...
The frequent mixing of different languages in early English texts, especially Latin, English and French, has been neglected by historical English...
Texts of the past were often not monolingual but were produced by and for people with bi- or multilingual repertoires; the communicative practices...
Textbooks inform readers that the precursor of Standard English was supposedly an East or Central Midlands variety which became adopted in London...
The complex linguistic situation of earlier multilingual Britain has led to numerous contact-induced changes in the history of English. However...