Author: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. South Atlantic Division
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Category : Signs and signboards
Languages : en
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South Atlantic Division Sign Handbook
Author: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. South Atlantic Division
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Category : Signs and signboards
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category : Signs and signboards
Languages : en
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Handbook of the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States
Author: William A. Kretzschmar
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226452838
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Who uses "skeeter hawk," "snake doctor," and "dragonfly" to refer to the same insect? Who says "gum band" instead of "rubber band"? The answers can be found in the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States (LAMSAS), the largest single survey of regional and social differences in spoken American English. It covers the region from New York state to northern Florida and from the coastline to the borders of Ohio and Kentucky. Through interviews with nearly twelve hundred people conducted during the 1930s and 1940s, the LAMSAS mapped regional variations in vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation at a time when population movements were more limited than they are today, thus providing a unique look at the correspondence of language and settlement patterns. This handbook is an essential guide to the LAMSAS project, laying out its history and describing its scope and methodology. In addition, the handbook reveals biographical information about the informants and social histories of the communities in which they lived, including primary settlement areas of the original colonies. Dialectologists will rely on it for understanding the LAMSAS, and historians will find it valuable for its original historical research. Since much of the LAMSAS questionnaire concerns rural terms, the data collected from the interviews can pinpoint such language differences as those between areas of plantation and small-farm agriculture. For example, LAMSAS reveals that two waves of settlement through the Appalachians created two distinct speech types. Settlers coming into Georgia and other parts of the Upper South through the Shenandoah Valley and on to the western side of the mountain range had a Pennsylvania-influenced dialect, and were typically small farmers. Those who settled the Deep South in the rich lowlands and plateaus tended to be plantation farmers from Virginia and the Carolinas who retained the vocabulary and speech patterns of coastal areas. With these revealing findings, the LAMSAS represents a benchmark study of the English language, and this handbook is an indispensable guide to its riches.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226452838
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Who uses "skeeter hawk," "snake doctor," and "dragonfly" to refer to the same insect? Who says "gum band" instead of "rubber band"? The answers can be found in the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States (LAMSAS), the largest single survey of regional and social differences in spoken American English. It covers the region from New York state to northern Florida and from the coastline to the borders of Ohio and Kentucky. Through interviews with nearly twelve hundred people conducted during the 1930s and 1940s, the LAMSAS mapped regional variations in vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation at a time when population movements were more limited than they are today, thus providing a unique look at the correspondence of language and settlement patterns. This handbook is an essential guide to the LAMSAS project, laying out its history and describing its scope and methodology. In addition, the handbook reveals biographical information about the informants and social histories of the communities in which they lived, including primary settlement areas of the original colonies. Dialectologists will rely on it for understanding the LAMSAS, and historians will find it valuable for its original historical research. Since much of the LAMSAS questionnaire concerns rural terms, the data collected from the interviews can pinpoint such language differences as those between areas of plantation and small-farm agriculture. For example, LAMSAS reveals that two waves of settlement through the Appalachians created two distinct speech types. Settlers coming into Georgia and other parts of the Upper South through the Shenandoah Valley and on to the western side of the mountain range had a Pennsylvania-influenced dialect, and were typically small farmers. Those who settled the Deep South in the rich lowlands and plateaus tended to be plantation farmers from Virginia and the Carolinas who retained the vocabulary and speech patterns of coastal areas. With these revealing findings, the LAMSAS represents a benchmark study of the English language, and this handbook is an indispensable guide to its riches.
Official Manual
Author: Missouri. Office of the Secretary of State
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Category : Executive departments
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Category : Executive departments
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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The American Year Book
Author: Albert Bushnell Hart
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Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 996
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Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 996
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The Chicago Daily News Almanac and Year Book for ...
Author: George Edward Plumbe
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Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
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Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
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The Statesman's Year-book
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Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 1846
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Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 1846
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American Year Book and Directory of Nurserymen
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Category : Nurseries (Horticulture)
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Category : Nurseries (Horticulture)
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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The Chicago Daily News Almanac and Year Book for ...
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Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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The International Year Book
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1066
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1066
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The International Year Book
Author: Frank Moore Colby
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1048
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Publisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1048
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