Author: Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385365104
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Author: Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385365104
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Handbook of the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States
Author: William A. KretzschmarPublisher: 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.
Bulletin
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ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 1178
Book Description
The Cheshire Sheaf. Local Gleanings, Historical & Antiquarian, from Many Scattered Fields
Author: Francis SandersPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385353203
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
The English Counties Delineated: Or, a Topographical Description of England, Illustrated by a Map of London and a Complete Set of County Maps
Author: Thomas MOULEPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University: Subject catalogue with supplement to volume I.
Author: Arnold Arboretum. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Delaware County Reports
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Second Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore, Including the Additions Made Since 1882
Author: Johns Hopkins University. Peabody Institute. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Proceedings of the Delaware County Historical Society
Author: Delaware county historical societyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The Encyclopaedia Britannica
Author: Hugh ChisholmPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
Book Description
This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.
