FOCUS ON: ENGLAND AND WALES -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- The voicing of initial fricatives in Middle English* -- References -- Sociolinguistic aspectsof place-names: Ethnic affiliation and the pronunciation of Welsh in the Welsh capital -- The study -- Dimension A -- Dimension B -- Dimension C -- Conclusions -- References -- The sound system of a West Midland dialect: Kniveton, Derbyshire -- Appendix A -- References -- Spatial aspectsof linguistic change in Surrey, Kent and Sussex -- References -- Researchon non-standard dialects of British English: Progress and prospects (1) -- 1.0 Introduction -- 2.0 Sources of information on non-standard grammar -- 2.1 The main grammatical studies -- 2.2 Other sources of grammatical data -- 2.2.1 Phonological and lexical studies -- 2.2.2 'Data-banks' -- 2.2.3 Dialect literature -- 2.2.4 Non-specialist accounts -- 3.0 A survey of British geographical regions -- 3.1 Scotland -- 3.2 Northern England -- 3.3 The Midlands and East Anglia -- 3.4 The South -- 3.5 Wales -- 3.6 Ireland -- 3.7 General works -- 4.0 Features of dialect grammar: an overview -- 4.1 Negation -- 4.1.1 Multiple negation -- 4.1.2 Auxiliaries -- 4.1.3 AIN'T and some other forms of TO BE -- 4.1.4 NEVER as past tense negative -- 4.1.5 Negative scope -- 4.1.6 Negative attraction -- 4.2 Present tense verb forms -- 4.2.1 Endings of the present tense -- 4.2.2 TO BE -- 4.2.3 TO DO/TO HAVE -- 4.2.4 Present participle -- 4.3 Past tense verb forms -- 4.3.1 Irregular forms -- 4.3.2 TO BE -- 4.4 Modal auxiliaries -- 4.5 Other verbal forms and constructions -- 4.5.1 Imperative -- 4.5.2 Infinitive -- 4.5.3 Perfective aspect -- 4.5.4 Habitual aspect -- 4.5.5 Passive voice -- 4.5.6 Other points -- 4.6 Adverbs -- 4.6.1 Without -ly -- 4.6.2 Intensification -- 4.6.3 Other points -- 4.7 Prepositions.

4.8 Plural of nouns -- 4.8.1 Unmarked plurality -- 4.8.2 Irregular plurals -- 4.9 Pronouns -- 4.10 Demonstratives -- 4.11 Comparison -- 4.11.1 Distribution of the formation mechanisms -- 4.11.2 Double comparison -- 4.11.3 Other aspects of comparison -- 4.12 Other aspects of grammar -- 4.12.1 Articles -- 4.12.2 Adjectives -- 4.12.3 Conjunctions -- 4.12.4 Genitive -- 4.12.5 Emphasis -- 4.12.6 Typical tags -- 4.12.7 Style -- 4.12.8 Final points -- 5.0 Conclusions -- 5.1 Theoretical implications of dialect research -- 5.2 Educational implications of dialect research -- 5.3 General conclusions -- References -- Amn't I, or the hole in the pattern -- References -- He took the bottle and put 'n in his pocket: The object pronoun it in present-day Somerset -- References -- Tyneside syntax:A presentation of some datafrom the Tyneside Linguistic Survey -- Introduction -- The Sample -- Conclusion -- References -- Use and non-use of prepositions in spatial expressions in the dialect of Cambridgeshire -- Introduction -- Expressions of motion or direction to or towards a goal -- Expressions of motion or direction away from a point or place -- Expressions of motion or direction away from a point or place -- Expressions of location or position -- Concluding observations -- Abbreviations and signs -- References -- Welsh English: A grammatical conspectus -- Fronting -- Expletive there -- Indirect question word order -- Infinitive for participle -- Possession -- General vernacular features -- Conclusion -- References -- Fieldworkfor the Survey of Anglo-Welsh Dialects: North Wales 1980-81 -- References -- The data of the Survey of English Dialects computerised: Key and conventions -- Conventions -- References -- On the interrelationship of British and American English: Morphological evidence -- References -- Index -- Authors' addresses.