English Dialects - From the Eighth Century to the Present Day

Klappentext This 1911 text sketches beginnings of dialects in England, the elements of Scandinavian and French influence on them, and their gradual development. Zusammenfassung Part of the Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature series and published in 1911! W. W. Skeat's English Dialects from the Eighth Century to the Present Day sketches the beginnings of dialects in England! the elements of Scandinavian and French influence on them! and their gradual development over a period of twelve hundred years. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Dialects and their value; 2. Dialects in early times; 3. The dialects of Northumbria, till AD 1300; 4. The dialects of Northumbria, AD 1300-1400; 5. Northumbrian in the fifteenth century; 6. The southern dialect; 7. The southern dialect of Kent; 8. The Mercian dialect; 9. Foreign elements in the dialects; 10. Later history of the dialects; 11. The modern dialects; 12. A few specimens; Bibliography; Index; Facsimile: the only English proclamation of Henry III.

Product details

• Authors: Walter W. Skeat
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.08.2011
• EAN: 9781107401877
• ISBN: 978-1-107-40187-7
• No. of pages: 152
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; English, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Language: history & general works, Dialect, slang & jargon, Language: history and general works, Dialect, slang and jargon