The Dialect of Hackness (North-East Yorkshire)
The Dialect of Hackness (North-East Yorkshire)

Author: G. H. Cowling

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-12-19

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 1107658004

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Originally published in 1915, this book presents a detailed guide to the Hackness dialect then 'spoken by agriculturalists and their labourers on the Wolds and in the Dales of North-Eastern and Eastern Yorkshire'. The text is divided into two main parts, with the first analysing phonetic elements of the dialect and the second examining its grammatical structure and examples of usage. A bibliography and comprehensive glossary are also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in local dialects and linguistics.

Interpreters of Early Medieval Britain
Interpreters of Early Medieval Britain

Author: Michael Lapidge

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 590

ISBN-13: 9780197262771

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This volume gathers together obituaries of 28 members of the British Academy who `transformed our knowledge of all aspects of the culture - philological, literary, palaeographical, archaeological, art-historical - of early medieval Britain' during the late 19th and 20th centuries.