Allen Walker Read
Biographic Data
| ID | 270831 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allen Walker Read |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allen Walker |
| FAMILY NAME | Read |
| SIGNATURE | READ A W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 59 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 59 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1928 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Words Crisscrossing the Sea: How Words Have Been Borrowed Between England and America
Research Article| May 01 2005 WORDS CRISSCROSSING THE SEA: HOW WORDS HAVE BEEN BORROWED BETWEEN ENGLAND AND AMERICA ALLEN WALKER READ ALLEN WALKER READ Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2005) 80 (2): 115–134. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-80-2-115 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation ALLEN WALKER READ; WORDS CRISSCROSSING THE SEA: HOW WORDS HAVE BEEN BORROWED BETWEEN…
The Bemusement of Americans over Place Names In England
"The Semiotic Aspect of Alfred Korzybski's General Semantics"
Classic American Graffiti
The Sources of Ghost Words in English
The Grammar of Double Talk
Margaret M. Bryant's Work in Linguistics
WHENONE CONSIDERSthe full range of Miss Bryant's activities -her administrative work, her committee work, her arranging of programs, her world-wide travels with lectures on the way, her sponsoring of innumerable projects and causes -it seems incredible that she should also have had time to be a scholar.And yet in the long run she will no doubt be known for her scholarship.Time and again her early work has been brought back into print.This is true…
Is the Name United States Singular or Plural
The Segmenting of Meanings in Lexicographical Practice
The Prospects of a National Place–Name Survey for the United States
(1970). The Prospects of a National Place–Name Survey for the United States. Names: Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 201-207
Report of the Lexicography Committee
Walter S. Avis, Frederic G. Cassidy, Audrey R. Duckert, Allen Walker Read, H. Rex Wilson, Raven I. McDavid, Report of the Lexicography Committee, American Speech, Vol. 44, No. 4 (Winter, 1969), pp. 311-312
Dreamed Words: Their Implications for Linguistic Theory
The Spread of German Linguistic Learning in New England during the Lifetime of Noah Webster
EVEN THOUGH COPIOUS STATEMENTS about language were made in classical times, it has been customary to say that the science of linguistics was a development of the nineteenth century. The recognition of systematic structures in the relationships of languages can be traced to a group of German and Scandinavian scholars in the decades before i850, particularly to Jacob Grimm. How these new formulations spread to America makes a chapter not only in th…
Needed Research in American English [1943]: A Symposium
Research Article| April 01 1964 Needed Research in American English [1943]: A Symposium Harry Morgan Ayres; Harry Morgan Ayres Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Kemp Malone; Kemp Malone Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Allen Walker Read Allen Walker Read Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Publication of the American Dialect Society (1964) 41 (1): 42. https://doi.org/10.121…
"Later Stages in the History of "O. K
"Successive Revisions in the Explanation of "O. K
"The Folklore of "O. K
A Type of Ostentatious Taboo
In one of his most perceptive essays, Otto Jespersen in 1929 explored the notion of ‘veiled language’. He noted that ‘round-about expressions’ were to be found in the popular speech of many nations, and he felt that they are ‘of interest to students of linguistic psychology as characteristic of one type of the popular mind’. Students of language have long known that taboo presents many problems, not the least of which is that taboo ought to be se…
Could Andrew Jackson Spell
"The First Stage in the History of "O. K
"The Second Stage in the History of "O. K
The Anatomy of Dirty Words
The World of Joe Strickland
Webster's third new international dictionary a symposium
WEBSTER'S THIRD NEW INTERNATIONAL DICTIONARY, UNABRIDGED. Philip B. Gove, Editor in Chief. Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam Co., 1961; pps. 2720. Editions from $47.50 to $59.50
Family Words in English
"The First Stage in the History of "O. K
"The Second Stage in the History of "O. K
Pronunciation of the Word 'Missouri
The Speech of Negroes in Colonial America
The Spread of German Linguistic Learning in New England during the Lifetime of Noah Webster
EVEN THOUGH COPIOUS STATEMENTS about language were made in classical times, it has been customary to say that the science of linguistics was a development of the nineteenth century. The recognition of systematic structures in the relationships of languages can be traced to a group of German and Scandinavian scholars in the decades before i850, particularly to Jacob Grimm. How these new formulations spread to America makes a chapter not only in th…
"Later Stages in the History of "O. K
"Successive Revisions in the Explanation of "O. K
"The Folklore of "O. K
A Type of Ostentatious Taboo
In one of his most perceptive essays, Otto Jespersen in 1929 explored the notion of ‘veiled language’. He noted that ‘round-about expressions’ were to be found in the popular speech of many nations, and he felt that they are ‘of interest to students of linguistic psychology as characteristic of one type of the popular mind’. Students of language have long known that taboo presents many problems, not the least of which is that taboo ought to be se…
An Account of the Word 'Semantics
Lexical Evidence from Folk Epigraphy in Western North America: A Glossarial Study of the Low Element in the English Vocabulary
Introduction to a Survey of Missouri Place-Names
The Philological Society of New York, 1788
An Obscenity Symbol
Words Crisscrossing the Sea: How Words Have Been Borrowed Between England and America
Research Article| May 01 2005 WORDS CRISSCROSSING THE SEA: HOW WORDS HAVE BEEN BORROWED BETWEEN ENGLAND AND AMERICA ALLEN WALKER READ ALLEN WALKER READ Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2005) 80 (2): 115–134. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-80-2-115 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation ALLEN WALKER READ; WORDS CRISSCROSSING THE SEA: HOW WORDS HAVE BEEN BORROWED BETWEEN…
Could Andrew Jackson Spell
Family Words in English
The Adjective 'American' in England
The Word Blizzard
Observations on Iowa Place Names
"Blizzard" Again
"Liberty" in Iowa
The Basis of Correctness in the Pronunciation of Place-Names
The Scope of the American Dictionary
Pronunciation of the Word 'Missouri
Introduction to a Survey of Missouri Place-Names
The Philological Society of New York, 1788
Words Indicating Social Status in America in the Eighteenth Century
An Obscenity Symbol
The Contemporary Quotations in Johnson's Dictionary
Lexical Evidence from Folk Epigraphy in Western North America
The Membership in Proposed American Academies
Amphi‐Atlantic English
Lexical Evidence from Folk Epigraphy in Western North America: A Glossarial Study of the Low Element in the English Vocabulary
The Bear in American Speech
Nantucketisms of 1848
A Dictionary of American English on Historical Principles
Journal Article A Dictionary of American English on Historical Principles. Edited by Sir William Craigie, with the collaboration of James R. Hulbert, George Watson, Mitford M. Mathews, and Allen Walker Read. Part I, A-Baggage. (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1936. x + [2] + 116 pp. $4.00.) Get access Lyon N. Richardson Lyon N. Richardson Western Reserve University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar…
The American Reception of Botta's Storia della guerra dell' Independenza degli Stati Uniti d'America
Bilingualism in the Middle Colonies, 1725-1775
Speech defects and mannerisms among slaves and servants in colonial America
The Pronunciation of Place Names on the Frontier, 1829-1830
Edward Everett's Attitude towards American English
The Rationale of 'Podunk
Six miles from Pottawoone, and ten miles from Poppasquash, and about four miles west of Cononicut, and not far from the spot where the famous battle with the warlike Pequots was fought.' 'In what part of the East Indies is that, sir?' asked one of them. 'East Indies, my dear sir!' he rejoined. 'It is in the state of Rhode-Island, between Massachusetts and Connecticut river.' He left them thereupon to study a new lesson in geography
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