An index to dialect maps of Great Britain / Andreas Fischer, Daniel Ammann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fischer, Andreas, 1947-

Contributor:

Ammann, Daniel, 1960-

Series:

Varieties of English around the world. General series ; 10.

Varieties of English around the world. General series, 0172-7362 ; v. 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Dialects--Great Britain--Maps--Indexes.

English language.

Great Britain--Languages--Maps--Indexes.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (154 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1991.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The results of the dialect surveys of Great Britain have been published in the form of hundreds of single and collected maps, but so far there has been no actual handbook to the charted material. The Index to Dialect Maps of Great Britain, containing a full introduction, an alphabetical word-list and a comprehensive bibliography, fills this gap. As a compendious directory to mapped words' it provides not only a lexical compass in a cartographic jungle, but serves as a guide to the major dialect surveys (Survey of English Dialects, Survey of Anglo-Welsh Dialects, Linguistic Survey of Sco

Contents:

AN INDEX TO DIALECT MAPS OF GREAT BRITAIN; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. General; 2. The individual surveys; 2.1 The Lowman-Survey of Central and Southern England (LS); 2.2 The Survey of English Dialects (SED); 2.3 The Survey of Anglo-Welsh Dialects (SAWD); 2.4 The Linguistic Survey of Scotland (LSS); 2.5 Surveys of English dialects in Ireland24; 3. The organisation of the Index; 3.1 Word; 3.2 Question; 3.3 Source; Index A-Z; References

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-283-35861-1

9786613358615

90-272-7757-5

OCLC:

769342308