A Grammar of the Dialect of Windhill, in the West Riding of Yorkshire (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Joseph Wright

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330539923 ISBN 13 : 9781330539927

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Explore a detailed study of the Windhill dialect from the West Riding of Yorkshire.

This authoritative reference analyzes grammar, vocabulary, and usage with careful examples. It guides readers through pronouns, demonstratives, and verbs, showing how regional speech differs from standard English. The book presents grammatical classes, historical notes, and practical usage to help readers understand and compare dialect forms.

Begin with a clear overview of the dialect’s pronouns, demonstratives, and interrogatives. Then dive into verb systems, including strong and weak forms and notable regional variations. Rich examples illustrate how words and structures shift across the Windhill speech landscape, from everyday phrases to nuanced sentence patterns. The work blends linguistic detail with accessible explanations, making it useful for students, scholars, and curious readers alike.

• Clear explanations of pronouns, demonstratives, and relative forms as used in the Windhill dialect
• In-depth treatment of strong versus weak verbs and their regional conjugations
• Practical examples showing pronunciation, usage, and regional variation
• Historical notes and cross-references to related dialect studies for context

Ideal for readers of regional language studies, historical linguistics, and dialect transcription who want a grounded, example-rich look at this Yorkshire dialect.

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A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Grammar has been to furnish specialists in English philology with an accurate account of the Phonology and Accidence of one of the most interesting of the Yorkshire dialects. And in order to make the work as useful as possible to this class of scholars, I have taken special care to include in the Phonology fairly complete lists of the words which are in common use in the dialect and also exist in the literary language. This method of treatment has sometimes involved me in great difficulties ;because in the case of words which seem to have had an abnormal development I could not always decide with certainty whether the seeming irregularities had arisen within the dialect itself, or whether the words in question had been introduced from the literary language at various periods, or were merely borrowings from some neighbouring dialect. These are difficulties which every writer of a scientific dialect grammar has to contend with. But it would manifestly have been dishonest on my part to have omitted any word or form which did not seem to have had a regular development.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330539923
• ISBN 13: 9781330539927
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
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