The English Dialect Dictionary
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Published: 1886
Total Pages: 10
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English Dialect Dictionary Online
Author: Manfred Markus
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-02-28
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781108840651
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJoseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary (1898-1905) is the most comprehensive English dialect dictionary ever written, documenting in detail every dialect of English in the British Isles and Ireland, as well as the USA, Canada, South Africa, and other colonial regions. Over the past ten years, it has been brought to life digitally as a freely available database resource, EDD Online, which provides access to this rich collection of dialect data. This book is a comprehensive user guide to EDD Online, showing how to get the most out of this unparalleled resource with step-by-step instructions, illustrated with handy screenshots, and an appendix containing full colour figures. It also considers dialectological issues from phonetics to pragmatics, and how searches can be tailored to specific linguistic concerns, demonstrating the interface's enormous potential to contribute to research in a range of disciplines, from dialectology, to fields such as historical linguistics, corpus linguistics, lexicography and sociolinguistics.
The Disappearing Dictionary
Author: David Crystal
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Published: 2015-05-21
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1447282795
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWherever you go in the English-speaking world, there are linguistic riches from times past awaiting rediscovery. All you have to do is choose a location, find some old documents, and dig a little. In The Disappearing Dictionary, linguistics expert Professor David Crystal collects together delightful dialect words that either provide an insight into an older way of life, or simply have an irresistible phonetic appeal. Like a mirror image of The Meaning of Liff that just happens to be true, The Disappearing Dictionary unearths some lovely old gems of the English language, dusts them down and makes them live again for a new generation. dabberlick [noun, Scotland] A mildly insulting way of talking about someone who is tall and skinny. 'Where's that dabberlick of a child?' fubsy [adjective, Lancashire] Plump, in a nice sort of way. squinch [noun, Devon] A narrow crack in a wall or a space between floorboards. 'I lost sixpence through a squinch in the floor'.
The English Dialect Dictionary, Being the Complete Vocabulary of All Dialect Words Still in Use, Or Known to Have Been in Use During the Last Two Hundred Years: H-L
Author: Joseph Wright
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Published: 1902
Total Pages: 716
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe English Dialect Grammar
Author: Joseph Wright
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Published: 1905
Total Pages: 734
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKJoseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary and Beyond
Author: Manfred Markus
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783631600382
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This volume includes sixteen papers based on presentations of the workshop Wright's English dialect dictionary and beyond at the 15th ICEHL in Munich (2008)"
The Handbook of Dialectology
Author: Charles Boberg
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2018-01-04
Total Pages: 616
ISBN-13: 1118827554
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Handbook of Dialectology provides an authoritative, up-to-date and unusually broad account of the study of dialect, in one volume. Each chapter reviews essential research, and offers a critical discussion of the past, present and future development of the area. The volume is based on state-of-the-art research in dialectology around the world, providing the most current work available with an unusually broad scope of topics Provides a practical guide to the many methodological and statistical issues surrounding the collection and analysis of dialect data Offers summaries of dialect variation in the world's most widely spoken and commonly studied languages, including several non-European languages that have traditionally received less attention in general discussions of dialectology Reviews the intellectual development of the field, including its main theoretical schools of thought and research traditions, both academic and applied The editors are well known and highly respected, with a deep knowledge of this vast field of inquiry
An Atlas of English Dialects
Author: Clive Upton
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-16
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 1134527756
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDo you call it April Fools’ Day, April Noddy Day or April Gowkin’ Day? Is the season before winter the Autumn, the Fall or the Backend? When you’re out of breath, do you pant, puff, pank, tift or thock? The words we use (and the sounds we make when we use them) are more often than not a product of where we live, and An Atlas of English Dialects shows the reader where certain words, sounds and phrases originate from and why usage varies from region to region. The Atlas includes: ninety maps showing the regions in which particular words, phrases and pronunciations are used detailed commentaries explaining points of linguistic, historical and cultural interest explanations of linguistic terms, a bibliography for further reading and a full index. Based on the Survey of English Dialects – the most extensive record of English regional speech – the Atlas is a fascinating and informative guide to the diversity of the English Language in England.
The Story of English
Author: Joseph Piercy
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
Published: 2012-09-06
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 1843179237
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscover how the relatively obscure dialects spoken by tribes from what are now Denmark, the Low Countries and northern Germany, became the most widely spoken language in the world.
Developments in English
Author: Irma Taavitsainen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-10-31
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 1316061175
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe history of the English language is a vast and diverse area of research. In this volume, a team of leading historians of English come together to analyse 'real' language, drawing on corpus data to shed new light on long-established issues and debates in the field. Combining synchronic and diachronic analysis, the chapters address the major issues in corpus linguistics – methodological, theoretical and applied – and place special focus on the use of electronic resources in the research of English and the wider field of digital humanities. Topics covered include polemical articles on the optimal use of corpus linguistic methods, macro-level patterns of text and discourse organisation, and micro-features such as interjections and hesitators. Covering Englishes from the past and present, this book is designed specifically for graduate students and researchers working in fields of corpus linguistics, the history of the English language, and historical linguistics.
