Sali Tagliamonte

Roots of English

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Produktbeschreibung

A groundbreaking account of the linguistic features of four English dialects and their wider implications for English's development.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 548g
• ISBN-13: 9780521863216
• ISBN-10: 052186321X
• Artikelnr.: 36169021

Autorenporträt

Sali A. Tagliamonte is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Toronto, Canada. She has been a university level teacher since 1995 and her research focuses on variation and change in the evolution of English. Her previous publications include Analysing Sociolinguistic Variation (Cambridge University Press, 2006) and Variationist Sociolinguistics: Change, Observation, Interpretation.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Dialects as a window on the past
3. The 'Roots' archive
4. Methods for analysis
5. Word endings
6. Joining sentences
7. Time, necessity and possession
8. Expressions
9. Comparative sociolinguistics
10. The legacy of British and Irish dialects.

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1. Introduction; 2. Dialects as a window on the past; 3. The 'Roots' archive; 4. Methods for analysis; 5. Word endings; 6. Joining sentences; 7. Time, necessity and possession; 8. Expressions; 9. Comparative sociolinguistics; 10. The legacy of British and Irish dialects.

Rezensionen

'English was born in England and Scotland. Over the centuries it spread from Britain to Ireland and across the Atlantic and beyond. But even in far-flung locations, the roots of English in British dialects are detectable not only in broad outline but, if you are clever enough, in all sorts of fascinating detail. And Sali Tagliamonte is clever enough. This book is a tour de force of historical dialectology.' Peter Trudgill, University of Agder