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James Augustus Henry Murray

 
9781330689431: The Dialect of the Southern Counties of Scotland (Classic Reprint)

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The local dialects are passing away,: along with, them disappears the light which they are able to shed upon so many points in the history of the national tongue that supersedes them, and the contributions which they, more than artificially trimmed Literary idioms, are able to make to the Science of Language, whether in regard to the course of phonetic changes, or the -spontaneous growth of natural grammar. They are passing away: even where not utterly trampled under foot by the encroaching language of literature and education, they are corrupted and arrested by its all-pervading influence, and in the same degree rendered valueless as witnesses of the usages of the past and the natural tendencies of the present. These pages attempt to photograph the leading features of one of the least-altered of these dialects, that of the Southern Counties of Scotland, and, with this as a basis, to illustrate the characteristics of that group of dialects descended from the old 14th century Inglis of the Northin lede, which under the names of Northern English and Lowland Scotch, still prevail in more or less of their original integrity from the Yorkshire dales, to the Pentland Firth. Farthest removed from Celtic contact, and from the influence -of the literary English, the Northern tongue has in 4he south of .S cotland retained more of its old forms than elsewhere, and so far as concerns its vocabulary, and grammatical -structure, affords almost a living specimen of the racy idiom in which Hampole and Barbour, at opposite extremes of the Northern-S peech-land, wrote five centuries ago.
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