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Languages : en
Pages : 10
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The English Dialect Dictionary
English Dialect Dictionary Online
Author: Manfred Markus
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781108814447
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary (1898-1905) is the most comprehensive English dialect dictionary ever written, documenting in detail every dialect of English in the British Isles and Ireland, as well as the USA, Canada, South Africa, and other colonial regions. Over the past ten years, it has been brought to life digitally as a freely available database resource, EDD Online, which provides access to this rich collection of dialect data. This book is a comprehensive user guide to EDD Online, showing how to get the most out of this unparalleled resource with step-by-step instructions, illustrated with handy screenshots, and an appendix containing full colour figures. It also considers dialectological issues from phonetics to pragmatics, and how searches can be tailored to specific linguistic concerns, demonstrating the interface's enormous potential to contribute to research in a range of disciplines, from dialectology, to fields such as historical linguistics, corpus linguistics, lexicography and sociolinguistics.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781108814447
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary (1898-1905) is the most comprehensive English dialect dictionary ever written, documenting in detail every dialect of English in the British Isles and Ireland, as well as the USA, Canada, South Africa, and other colonial regions. Over the past ten years, it has been brought to life digitally as a freely available database resource, EDD Online, which provides access to this rich collection of dialect data. This book is a comprehensive user guide to EDD Online, showing how to get the most out of this unparalleled resource with step-by-step instructions, illustrated with handy screenshots, and an appendix containing full colour figures. It also considers dialectological issues from phonetics to pragmatics, and how searches can be tailored to specific linguistic concerns, demonstrating the interface's enormous potential to contribute to research in a range of disciplines, from dialectology, to fields such as historical linguistics, corpus linguistics, lexicography and sociolinguistics.
The English Dialect Dictionary
Author: Joseph Wright
Publisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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The English dialect dictionary, being the complete vocabulary of all dialect words still in use, or known to have been in use during the last two hundred years
Author: Joseph Wright
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5880963055
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5880963055
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The English Dialect Dictionary: T-Z. Supplement. Bibliography. Grammar
Author: Joseph Wright
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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The English dialect dictionary : being the complete vocabulary of all dialect words still in use, or known to have been in use during the last two hundred years ; founded on the publications of the English Dialect Society and on a large amount of material never before printed. 2. D - G
Author: Joseph Wright
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
The English Dialect Dictionary, Being the Complete Vocabulary of All Dialect Words Still in Use, Or Known to Have Been in Use During the Last Two Hundred Years
Author: Joseph Wright
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
English Dialect Dictionary Online
Author: Manfred Markus
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781108840651
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary (1898-1905) is the most comprehensive English dialect dictionary ever written, documenting in detail every dialect of English in the British Isles and Ireland, as well as the USA, Canada, South Africa, and other colonial regions. Over the past ten years, it has been brought to life digitally as a freely available database resource, EDD Online, which provides access to this rich collection of dialect data. This book is a comprehensive user guide to EDD Online, showing how to get the most out of this unparalleled resource with step-by-step instructions, illustrated with handy screenshots, and an appendix containing full colour figures. It also considers dialectological issues from phonetics to pragmatics, and how searches can be tailored to specific linguistic concerns, demonstrating the interface's enormous potential to contribute to research in a range of disciplines, from dialectology, to fields such as historical linguistics, corpus linguistics, lexicography and sociolinguistics.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781108840651
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary (1898-1905) is the most comprehensive English dialect dictionary ever written, documenting in detail every dialect of English in the British Isles and Ireland, as well as the USA, Canada, South Africa, and other colonial regions. Over the past ten years, it has been brought to life digitally as a freely available database resource, EDD Online, which provides access to this rich collection of dialect data. This book is a comprehensive user guide to EDD Online, showing how to get the most out of this unparalleled resource with step-by-step instructions, illustrated with handy screenshots, and an appendix containing full colour figures. It also considers dialectological issues from phonetics to pragmatics, and how searches can be tailored to specific linguistic concerns, demonstrating the interface's enormous potential to contribute to research in a range of disciplines, from dialectology, to fields such as historical linguistics, corpus linguistics, lexicography and sociolinguistics.
The English Dialect Dictionary, Being the Complete Vocabulary of All Dialect Words Still in Use, Or Known to Have Been in Use During the Last Two Hundred Years: H-L
Author: Joseph Wright
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
The Disappearing Dictionary
Author: David Crystal
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1447282795
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Wherever you go in the English-speaking world, there are linguistic riches from times past awaiting rediscovery. All you have to do is choose a location, find some old documents, and dig a little. In The Disappearing Dictionary, linguistics expert Professor David Crystal collects together delightful dialect words that either provide an insight into an older way of life, or simply have an irresistible phonetic appeal. Like a mirror image of The Meaning of Liff that just happens to be true, The Disappearing Dictionary unearths some lovely old gems of the English language, dusts them down and makes them live again for a new generation. dabberlick [noun, Scotland] A mildly insulting way of talking about someone who is tall and skinny. 'Where's that dabberlick of a child?' fubsy [adjective, Lancashire] Plump, in a nice sort of way. squinch [noun, Devon] A narrow crack in a wall or a space between floorboards. 'I lost sixpence through a squinch in the floor'.
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1447282795
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Wherever you go in the English-speaking world, there are linguistic riches from times past awaiting rediscovery. All you have to do is choose a location, find some old documents, and dig a little. In The Disappearing Dictionary, linguistics expert Professor David Crystal collects together delightful dialect words that either provide an insight into an older way of life, or simply have an irresistible phonetic appeal. Like a mirror image of The Meaning of Liff that just happens to be true, The Disappearing Dictionary unearths some lovely old gems of the English language, dusts them down and makes them live again for a new generation. dabberlick [noun, Scotland] A mildly insulting way of talking about someone who is tall and skinny. 'Where's that dabberlick of a child?' fubsy [adjective, Lancashire] Plump, in a nice sort of way. squinch [noun, Devon] A narrow crack in a wall or a space between floorboards. 'I lost sixpence through a squinch in the floor'.