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Individual Chapters Cover The Full International Range Of English Dialects, From The Centre Of Sydney To The Shores Of Newfoundland, And From The Scottish Borders To The Appalachian Mountains. Soundly Based On Empirical Research, They Are Rich In Data Of Great Interest In Itself, But No Article Is Merely Descriptive. The Editors Have Selected Papers For Their Value In Contributing To The Reader's Broader Understanding Of The Theoretical Issues Concerning Dialectology As A Whole. As A Result, Dialectology Is Presented As A Major Scholarly Discipline Drawing Creatively On Such Areas As Linguistics, Sociology, Psychology, History, Geography And Even Philosophy. 1. Introduction: English Dialect Grammar ---- Part I. Pronouns. 2. Pronouns And Pronominal Systems In English Dialects --- 3. The Personal Dative In Appalachian Speech --- 4. Demonstrative Adjectives And Pronouns In A Devonshire Dialect --- 5. The Actuation Problem For Gender Change In Wessex Versus Newfoundland ---- Part Ii. Verb Systems. 6. Verb Systems In English Dialects --- 7. Variation In The Use Of Ain't In An Urban English Dialect --- 8. Double Modals In Hawick Scots --- 9. On Grammatical Diffusion In Somerset Folk Spee

Author

Peter Trudgill and J.K. Chambers

Publisher

Longman Publishing Group

Published

1991

Language

EN

ISBN

9780582021945

Subjects

Language Learning, Literary Fiction, Humanities