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Author | : Hans Kurath |
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Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
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"This pioneering book is the first systematic geographical treatment of American vocabulary. Hans Kurath identifies the major dialect areas of the Eastern United States, cites key words which characterize each region, and discusses the historical significance of regional speech patterns. A Word Geography of the Eastern United States is a unique and original study of the American language. It is invaluable not only for linguists but also for historians, sociologists, anthropologists, and the general reader interested in why people talk as they do." --
Author | : University of Michigan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 1949 |
Genre | : Americanisms |
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Author | : Thomas Edward Murray |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027248966 |
Download Language Variation and Change in the American Midland Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume explores the linguistic complexities and critical issues of the Midland dialect area of the USA, and contains a unique data-based set of investigations of the Midlands dialect. The authors demonstrate that the large central part of the United States known colloquially as the Heartland, geo-culturally as the Midwest, and linguistically as the Midland is a very real dialect area, one with regional cohesiveness, social complexity, and psycho-emotional impact. The individual essays problematize historical origins, track linguistic markers of social identity over time and across social spaces, frame dialect issues within the linguistic marketplace, account for extra-linguistic influences on changing patterns of linguistic behaviors, and describe maintenance strategies of non-English languages. This book is an important move forward in the understanding of American English. Sociolinguists, dialectologists, applied linguists, and all those involved in the statistical and qualitative study of language variation will find this volume relevant, timely, and insightful.
Author | : Nicoline Sijs van der |
Publisher | : Amsterdam University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9089641246 |
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In this volume, the renowned linguist Nicoline van der Sijs glosses over some 300 Dutch loan words that travelled to the New World between the 17th and the 20th century.
Author | : Hans Kurath |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1966 |
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Author | : Henry Glassie |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1971-10 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780812210132 |
Download Pattern in the Material Folk Culture of the Eastern United States Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Filled with brilliant insights and tantalizing leads."--
Author | : E. Atwood |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016-10-30 |
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ISBN | : 9780472750108 |
Download A Survey of Verb Forms in the Eastern United States Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A Survey of Verb Forms in the Eastern United States, like the recent Word Geography of the Eastern United States by Hans Kurath, is an outgrowth of the Linguistic Atlas of the United States and Canada--an undertaking that can truly be called the first large-scale attempt to determine the facts of American linguistic usage by means of direct investigation. Atlas field records covering the entire Eastern United States and representing persons of varying degrees of sophistication have been made available to the writer, and have enabled him to trace not only the geographical spread but also the social distribution of the linguistic features that are treated. This study, which confines itself to verb inflection, does more than differentiate "standard" from "vulgar" usages. It also demonstrates how the early culture centers and the principal migration areas are reflected in the dissemination of grammatical forms. Thus it makes clear that our "Vulgate" grammar, often thought to be uniform throughout the country, is in reality highly varied and regional in its character.
Author | : John M. Kirk |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2014-01-10 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1317931556 |
Download Studies in Linguistic Geography (RLE Linguistics D: English Linguistics) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The publication in the past ten years of linguistic atlases of England and Scotland has not only advanced our knowledge of the lexical and morphological variety inherent in the English language, but has made it possible to establish a number of methodological principles for the study of language both in its contemporary distribution and in its historical evolution. The essays in this volume, by contributors to the linguistic atlases and other dialectologists, describe some of the problems that bedevil the study of dialect and the methodological solutions employed to minimise them. They also survey the contributions that linguistic cartography can make to the study of English and of language in general. The considerations it embodies are of major importance for the student of language and, in addition, the book is an invaluable companion to the Atlases.
Author | : Dennis R. Preston |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 481 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027221324 |
Download American Dialect Research Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Containing all new material and published for the American Dialect Society's centennial celebration (1889-1989), this volume bings together in one place, as no previously published work has, current approaches to the general problems of language distribution and variation. The several chapters offer accounts of how questions are formulated and how data are collected, stored, and intepreted in the various research traditions of dialectology and sociolinguistics, particularly as they have been carried out by researchers associated with the American Dialect Society. More specifically, this book takes trips to the scholar's laboratory. How is this work done? What pitfalls in fieldwork, processing, and interpretation have been encountered and how have they been overcome? What techniques have been used to get at the facts and underlying explanations of language variety? What does recent work suggest about the most rewarding areas and methods for future investigation?
Author | : Tometro Hopkins |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 864 |
Release | : 2013-03-14 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1441135731 |
Download World Englishes Volumes I-III Set Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
World Englishes is a twelve-volume series, presenting a comprehensive, detailed survey of English as it is spoken all over the world. The volumes are organised into four groups, covering Britain, Europe, America, Africa and Asia, and celebrate English in all its diversity. The chapters contain maps, facts and figures, and a detailed description about English as it is spoken in each region and are an invaluable library resource for undergraduates, postgraduates and academics interested in the diversity of the English language.