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Item English family names(Adam Mickiewicz University, 2008) Viereck, WolfgangThe English of the British Isles has already been put on the map in a number of national and regional atlases. In contrast, atlases of English family names are rather few in number and there are only a very limited number of distributional maps, often without any historical dimension. A team working at my Chair of English Linguistics and Medieval Studies at the University of Bamberg have remedied this situation. Since 2004, a number of publications have appeared, or will appear shortly, that will ultimately lead to a rather comprehensive atlas of English family names. These are: Viereck 2004 (reprinted in an abridged version in 2005a), 2005b, 2005c, 2006a, 2006b, 2006c, 2007/2008, 2008a, 2008b and Barker et al. 2007. English surnames, of course, have come down to us in such enormous numbers that only a selection of them can be dealt with. This contribution is the final paper in the series. It deals with one example each of the main categories mentioned below, namely a – female – personal name, a local surname, a nickname and an occupational surname. Some comments on further research desiderata are made at the end of the paper.Item Insights into the cultural history of Europe as provided by the "Atlas Linguarum Europae"(Adam Mickiewicz University, 2002) Viereck, WolfgangItem Language policy in Germany and beyond(Adam Mickiewicz University, 2006) Viereck, WolfgangIn Germany and Switzerland the world-dominion of English was already predicted in the 19th century. While today the impact of English on German has alarming consequences for many, English lexemes often fill a welcome gap in German. The role German politicians play in this field can at best be called ambivalent. Strongly negative is the part they played in the discussions about the reform of the orthography of German. The paper concludes with remarks on the language policy of the European Union for which a conscious policy of multilingualism is advocated.Item Pronominal usage in dialectal English(Adam Mickiewicz University, 2002) Viereck, WolfgangItem Social dialectology: A plea for more data(Adam Mickiewicz University, 1979) Viereck, WolfgangItem The areal analysis of dialectal features: The gravity centre method as applied to SED morphosyntactic data(Adam Mickiewicz University, 1997) Viereck, Wolfgang