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Focus on England and Wales /
This volume is a wide-ranging study in dialectology. General surveys appear along with in-depth studies of particular problems. Some papers describe the present situation in terms of dynamic synchrony, others deal with the past and making use of present-day dialectal data to help solve certain probl...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamin Pub. Co.,
1985.
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| Colección: | Varieties of English around the world. General series ;
v. 4. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- FOCUS ON: ENGLAND AND WALES; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Introduction; The voicing of initial fricatives in Middle English*; References; Sociolinguistic aspectsof place-names: Ethnic affiliation and the pronunciation of Welsh in the Welsh capital; The study; Dimension A; Dimension B; Dimension C; Conclusions; References; The sound system of a West Midland dialect: Kniveton, Derbyshire; Appendix A; References; Spatial aspectsof linguistic change in Surrey, Kent and Sussex; References.
- Researchon non-standard dialects of British English: Progress and prospects (1)1.0 Introduction; 2.0 Sources of information on non-standard grammar; 2.1 The main grammatical studies; 2.2 Other sources of grammatical data; 2.2.1 Phonological and lexical studies; 2.2.2 'Data-banks'; 2.2.3 Dialect literature; 2.2.4 Non-specialist accounts; 3.0 A survey of British geographical regions; 3.1 Scotland; 3.2 Northern England; 3.3 The Midlands and East Anglia; 3.4 The South; 3.5 Wales; 3.6 Ireland; 3.7 General works; 4.0 Features of dialect grammar: an overview; 4.1 Negation; 4.1.1 Multiple negation.
- 4.1.2 Auxiliaries4.1.3 AIN'T and some other forms of TO BE; 4.1.4 NEVER as past tense negative; 4.1.5 Negative scope; 4.1.6 Negative attraction; 4.2 Present tense verb forms; 4.2.1 Endings of the present tense; 4.2.2 TO BE; 4.2.3 TO DO/TO HAVE; 4.2.4 Present participle; 4.3 Past tense verb forms; 4.3.1 Irregular forms; 4.3.2 TO BE; 4.4 Modal auxiliaries; 4.5 Other verbal forms and constructions; 4.5.1 Imperative; 4.5.2 Infinitive; 4.5.3 Perfective aspect; 4.5.4 Habitual aspect; 4.5.5 Passive voice; 4.5.6 Other points; 4.6 Adverbs; 4.6.1 Without -ly; 4.6.2 Intensification; 4.6.3 Other points.
- 4.7 Prepositions4.8 Plural of nouns; 4.8.1 Unmarked plurality; 4.8.2 Irregular plurals; 4.9 Pronouns; 4.10 Demonstratives; 4.11 Comparison; 4.11.1 Distribution of the formation mechanisms; 4.11.2 Double comparison; 4.11.3 Other aspects of comparison; 4.12 Other aspects of grammar; 4.12.1 Articles; 4.12.2 Adjectives; 4.12.3 Conjunctions; 4.12.4 Genitive; 4.12.5 Emphasis; 4.12.6 Typical tags; 4.12.7 Style; 4.12.8 Final points; 5.0 Conclusions; 5.1 Theoretical implications of dialect research; 5.2 Educational implications of dialect research; 5.3 General conclusions; References.
- Amn't I, or the hole in the patternReferences; He took the bottle and put 'n in his pocket: The object pronoun it in present-day Somerset; References; Tyneside syntax:A presentation of some datafrom the Tyneside Linguistic Survey; Introduction; The Sample; Conclusion; References; Use and non-use of prepositions in spatial expressions in the dialect of Cambridgeshire; Introduction; Expressions of motion or direction to or towards a goal; Expressions of motion or direction away from a point or place; Expressions of motion or direction away from a point or place.