General Editor's introduction Raymond Hickey; Introduction to Volume V Natalie Schilling, Derek Denis and Raymond Hickey; Part I. The United States: 1. Language change and the history of American English Walt Wolfram; 2. The dialectology of Anglo-American English Natalie Schilling; 3. The roots and development of New England English James Stanford; 4. The history of the Midland-Northern boundary Matthew J. Gordon; 5. The spread of English westwards Valerie Fridland and Tyler Kendall; 6.
American English in the city: the case of Pittsburgh Barbara Johnstone; 7. New York City and Baltimore Aidan Malanoski and Michael Newman; 8. English in the southern United States Becky Childs and Paul Reed; 9. Contact forms of American English Cristopher Font-Santiago and Joseph Salmons; 10. The roots of African American English Tracey Weldon; 11. The great migration and regional variation in the speech of African Americans Charlie Farrington; 12. Rural African American English Patricia Cukor-Avila; 13. Urban African American English Nicole Holliday; 14.
Puerto Rican English Rosa Guzzardo Tamargo; 15. The English of Americans of Mexican and central American heritage Erik Thomas; Part II. Canada: 16. Anglophone settlement and the creation of Canadian English Charles Boberg; 17. The lexical profile of English in Canada Stefan Dollinger; 18. Ontario English: loyalists and beyond Derek Denis, Bridget Jankowski and Sali Tagliamonte; 19. The prairies and the west of Canada Alexandra D'Arcy and Nicole Rosen; 20. Canadian maritime English: solidarity and resistance, yeah Matt Hunt Gardner; 21.
English in Newfoundland William Kirwin, Sandra Clarke and Raymond Hickey; 22. English as a minority language in Quebec: a (socio)linguistic aperçu Shana Poplack; Part III. The Caribbean: 23. Early English-lexifier creole in the circum-Caribbean area Norval Smith; 24. The Caribbean anglophone contact varieties: creoles and koinés Jeffrey Williams; 25. English in Jamaica - between local and foreign Sylvia Kouwenberg; 26. The anglophone Caribbean rim Angela Bartens; 27. North American-Caribbean linguistic connections Stephanie Hackert.