Part I. The Theory of Vernacular Universals
Chapter 1. Cognition and the Linguistic Continuum from Vernacular to Standard
Chapter 2. Vernacular Universals and Angloversals in a Typological Perspective

Part II. Consonant Cluster Reduction and Default Singulars: Prototypical Vernacular Universals?
Chapter 3. How Diagnostic Are English Universals?
Chapter 4. Number Agreement in Existential Constructions: A Sociolinguistic Study of Eighteenth-Century English
Chapter 5. There Was Universals; Then There Weren’t: A Comparative Sociolinguistic Perspective on ‘Default Singulars’

Part III. Universals and Contact in Varieties of English
Chapter 6. Irish Daughters of Northern British Relatives: Internal and External Constraints on the System of Relativisation in South Armagh English (SArE)
Chapter 7. The Case of Bungi: Evidence for Vernacular Universals
Chapter 8. The Regularisation of the Hiatus Resolution System in British English: A Contact-Induced ‘Vernacular Universal’?
Chapter 9. The Interplay of ‘Universals’ and Contact-induced Change in the Emergence of New Englishes
Chapter 10. Digging for Roots Universals and Contact in Regional Varieties of English

Part IV. Methodological and Theoretical Perspectives
Chapter 11. Methods and Inferences in the Study of Substrate Influence
Chapter 12. Some Offspring of Colonial English Are Creole
Chapter 13. Vernacular Universals and the Sociolinguistic Typology of English Dialects
Chapter 14. Linguistic Universals and Vernacular Data
Chapter 15. Why Universals Versus Contact-induced Change?