Solving Kurath’s puzzle: Establishing the antecedents of the American Midland dialect region

Legacies of Colonial English: Studies in Transported Dialects

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 310-325

  Montgomery, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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