Author: J. B. Wilkinson
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Category : Binghamton (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The Annals of Binghamton, and of the Country Connected with It, from the Earliest Settlement
Author: J. B. Wilkinson
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Category : Binghamton (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Binghamton (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
A Catalogue of a Very Complete Collection of Books and Pamphlets Relating to the American Civil War 1861-5
Author: Francis Perego Harper
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Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 890
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 890
Book Description
Bibliotheca Americana
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ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Francis Perego Harper
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
Sale
Author: Anderson Galleries, Inc
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
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.
Collections of the New-York Historical Society for the Year ...
Author:
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Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 1052
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 1052
Book Description
Catalogue of printed books in the library of the New York Historical Society
Author: New-York Historical Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the New-York Historical Society
Author: New-York Historical Society. Library
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Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 684
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the New-York Historical Society
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382307227
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382307227
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.