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Non-Student Research Papers
[1880] - 1992
This subfonds contains provenanced and unprovenanced papers, created and collected by students, academics and other researchers and informants from outside the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studi...
Inaugural Lecture Introduction
1950
Speech introducing the inaugural lecture of Professor George Gordon (Professor of English Language, University of Leeds), 16 February 1950, on the English significance of Scandinavian literature. The ...
Personnel and Progress Report
Detroit Dialect Society
1966
This file contains a photocopy of a typed statement of personnel of the Detroit Dialect Society, Michigan State University (undated); and two copies of the Society's Progress Report, 1 April 1966, wri...
Papers on Allendale Town Dialect
Dixon, Hubert
[1929-1969]
This file contains a typed series of articles, originally written for the 'Hexham Courant' (ca. 1929-1939), on the dialect of Allendale Town, Northumberland. The author, Hubert Dixon, was a native of ...
Sheffield Dialect Words
Ellin, Thomas R
1929-1934
Four notebooks of the address book variety, with A-Z thumb tabs down the right-hand side, containing collections of Sheffield dialect words. The first, bearing the words Where is it in gold lettering ...
Field Recordings of the Dialect of Craster (Northumberland)
Fenwick, D
1956
Three ms. field notebooks with phonetic recordings of dialect information collected by D. Fenwick from informant Adam Durham of Craster, Northumberland. The recordings are based on the Dieth-Orton Que...
Some Dialect Isoglosses in England
Finners, N
1958
This file contains a typed paper, with ms. annotations, presented to the American Dialect Society, with accompanying maps. The paper uses survey data from the United States and Great Britain to invest...
Some of the Old Fashioned Words and Expressions Specially in Use in Berkhamsted (Herts.) and District in the Later Part of the Nineteenth Century
Fry, Dora
1968
This file contains a photocopy of an ms. alphabetical list of words (with definitions) in use in and around Berkhamsted (Hertfordshire) in the late nineteenth century. The words were collected from Do...
The Evidence of Place-Names
Gelling, Margaret
1973
This file contains a paper on English placenames presented at the Medieval Settlement Seminar at the School of History, University of Leeds, 14 February 1973. The paper addresses what historical infor...
From Toponomastic Geography: The Original Territory of Albanian Settlements in Messenia (Peloponnesus, Greece) on the Basis of Toponymy
Georgacas, Demetrius J
[1960s]
This file contains a copy of a typed research paper on the evidence for the settlement of Albanians in Messenia, Greece, in the late Middle Ages, based on the evidence of placenames. The author aims t...
Categories for the Theory of Grammar
Halliday, Michael Alexander Kirkwood (1925-)
1961
Typed working paper, marked For Internal Circulation Only, outlining Halliday's thoughts on the method of describing language and linguistic theory. The paper was intended for circulation at the Depar...