Researching Northern English
Northern English has become the focus of intensive research in the past decade or so, following on a series of dedicated conferences. The present book brings together leading-edge contributions on various aspects of language use, variation and change in the North of England. The volume covers the hi...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company
[2015]
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Varieties of English around the world ; G55. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39269127*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Researching Northern English; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; The North of England and Northern English; 1. Introduction; 2. The geography of the North; 3. The urban North; 4. The linguistic North; 5. Awareness of the North; 6. Topics and themes in Northern English; 6.1 Language and culture; 6.1.1 Enregisterment of Northern features; 6.1.2 The historical phonology of Northern English; 6.1.3 The grammar of Northern English; 6.1.4 Northern English vocabulary; 6.2 Variation and change within the North; 6.2.1 Newcastle; 6.2.2 Sunderland.
- 6.2.3 Carlisle and Cumbria6.2.4 Sheffield; 6.2.5 Middlesbrough; 6.2.6 Lancashire; 6.2.7 Manchester; 6.2.8 Merseyside; 6.3 Transitions and borders; 6.3.1 Where to draw the line: Perceptions of the North; 6.3.2 Between the South and the North: The Midlands and the Fens; 6.3.3 Further than the North: Scotland; 6.3.4 Non-native Northern English; 7. Conclusion; References; PART I. The North of England. Language and Culture; The enregisterment of Northern English; 1. Indexicality and enregisterment; 2. Enregisterment and the history of Northern English; 2.1 The beginning.
- 2.2 Early Modern English (1500-1700)2.3 Late Modern English 1700-1900; 3. Case study: Nineteenth-century Yorkshire; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Geographical and social mobility; 3.3 Awareness of Yorkshire dialect; 3.4 The "Yorkshire character" versus "barbarous jargon"; 4. Conclusion; References; The Great Vowel Shift in the North of England; 1. Introduction; 2. Background; 2.1 Old English; 2.2 Middle English; 3. The Great Vowel Shift; 3.1 Data and methods; 3.2 Results; 4. Conclusion; References; Morphosyntactic features of Northern English; 1. Introduction.
- 1.1 The North
- South divide in grammatical terms2. Northern grammars; 2.1 The verb phrase; 2.1.1 The Northern Subject Rule (NSR); 2.1.2 Negation; 2.1.3 Modal auxiliaries; 2.2 The noun phrase ; 2.2.1 The definite article; 2.2.2 Personal pronouns; 2.2.2.1 First person pronouns; 2.2.2.2 Second person pronouns; 2.2.2.3 Third person pronouns; 2.2.2.4 Reflexive pronouns; 2.2.3 Relative markers; 2.2.3.1 WH-strategies; 2.2.3.2 What; 2.2.3.3 As/at; 2.2.3.4 Zero; 3. Discussion; References; The history of present indicative morphosyntax from a northern perspective; 1. Introduction.
- 2. The competition of verbal -s/ -th in third person singular contexts 3. The competition of the -th, -s and zero suffix in plural present indicative contexts. The origin and diffusion of the Northern Subject Rule; 4. The extension of -s to the first person singular and the NSR in this environment; 5. Discussion: What is the Northern Subject Rule?; 6. Conclusion; References; Northern English; 1. Introduction; 2. Northern English in The Salamanca Corpus; 3. Data selected for analysis; 4. Northern English historical lexis and spelling.
