Speech Past and Present: Studies in English Dialectology in Memory of Ossi IhalainenJuhani Klemola, Merja Kytö, Matti Rissanen "This volume, dedicated to the memory of Professor Ossi Ihalainen (1941-1993), brings together studies in English dialectology by distinguished scholars world-wide. The topics discussed cover phonological, morphological, syntactic, and lexical variation in varieties of English. The majority of articles deal with British English dialects, either from the present-day or historical point of view. American, Irish, and South African varieties of English are also discussed".--BOOKJACKET. |
Contents
Relativization strategies in Early Middle English and after | 18 |
Relic words as tools for linguistic geography | 72 |
Entering lexical fields in Irish English | 101 |
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alliteration American English analysis Barnes Barnes's British Cambridge Cely century Claxton contexts corpus culture dialect literature Dialectology Dictionary disprefer Dorset Dublin England English Dialect English Language example factors Forby forms Furnivall Germanic Grammar Helsinki Hiberno-English historical hypercorrection informants interaction intransitives Ireland Irish English Irish words Lancashire language contact letters lexical sets lexicon lexis linguistic lish London meaning Middle English Midland morphosyntax nonstandard North occur Old English Ossi Ihalainen Oxford participle passives past pattern Peter Trudgill Philological Society phonetic phonological phrases pied piping Poems preposition preposition stranding present pronouns reference relative clause response shows social sociolinguistic Somerset South speakers speech spelling Stage standard English structure Suffolk suggests syntactic Table tense tion traditional Trudgill University Press utterances variable variation varieties verb Viereck vowel wake weight Welsh English Widdowson Yorkshire