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english language - dialects45
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manners and customs14
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Voitl, Herbert3
Bergal, Nancy Ann2
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)2
Hayes, Raymond (1909-2000)2
Lloyd Weedon, Trevor2
Sullivan, Keith Frederick2
Taylor, Monica2
Alston, Robin C (1933-)1
Anderson, Peter M1
Brown, George1

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A Grammar of the Dialect of Dentdale (Yorkshire), Descriptive and Historical

Hedevind, Bertil

1957

Ph.D. thesis containing chapters describing the sounds of the dialect recorded in 19[56], the development of Middle English sounds in the living dialect vowels of stressed syllables, the historical so...

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Wortweiser der Historischen Grammatik der Englischen Sprache von Dr. Karl Luick

Katz, Theodor

1949

This file contains an alphabetical list of English keywords from Karl Luick's 'Historischen Grammar der Englischen Sprache'. Each word is classified according to word type (i.e. adjective, adverb, etc...

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Bibliography and Historical Linguistics

Alston, Robin C (1933-)

1965

Typed paper, read before the Bibliographical Society on 16 February 1965.

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Studies in the Historical Phonology of the Yorkshire Dialects

Dean, Christopher

1953

Ph.D. thesis which analyses fieldwork data collected as part of the Survey of English Dialects, and compares it with information contained in monographs on separate Yorkshire localities. This covers t...

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A Grammar of the Dialect of Fleetwood (Lancashire), Descriptive and Historical

Wright, Peter

1954

Ph.D. containing in its first volume a treatment of the sounds of the dialect recorded in 19[53], the modern equivalents of the Middle English vowels and consonants, and an account of the syntax and m...

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Middle English Dialect Areas Map
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Middle English Dialect Areas Map

[1950s-1960s]

Printed map showing the Middle English dialect areas.

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Dialects of Middle English Map
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Dialects of Middle English Map

[1950s-1960s]

Map from an unidentified publication showing the Middle English dialect areas.

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The Influence of Outside Cultures on the Gaelic Tongue

Lloyd Weedon, Trevor

[ca. 1970s]

This file contains a photocopy of an ms. paper by Lloyd Weedon on Gaelic language in Scotland and its decline. The file also includes a photocopy of a page from an unidentified publication showing a m...

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The English Dialect Survey's Dictionary Project

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

[1981]

This file contains a copy of a paper (17 leaves) delivered by Sanderson to the first International Symposium on Lexicography at the University of Copenhagen in 1982. The paper, entitled 'The English D...

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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...

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Sound Recording

Open University

[1980]

Stanley Ellis discusses some of the main changes in the English language during the last one thousand years, illustrated with readings from passages written by King Alfred, Geoffrey Chaucer and Willia...

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The Dialect of Eaton-by-Tarporley (Cheshire), A Descriptive and Historical Grammar

Anderson, Peter M

1977

Ph.D. thesis which describes the sound system and accidence of the modern Eaton-by-Tarporley dialect and relates this to the system from which it is descended. Chapter 1 demonstrates the interplay bet...

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