Michael Montgomery
Biographic Data
| ID | 3817971 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Montgomery |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Montgomery |
| SIGNATURE | MONTGOMERY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Carolina |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7389-5007 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 97 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Speaking of Alabama: The History, Diversity, Function, and Change of Language
Dareand Regional American Lexicography
The recent completion of the Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) makes timely an assessment of its achievements and the implications for pursuing regional dictionaries of American English. Using the author’s forthcoming Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English, this article explores how DARE’s practices can instruct a regional dictionary in evaluating sources and incorporating material from three indispensable domains: the library, t…
Lamsas, Cacwl, and the South–south Midland Dialect Boundary in Nineteenth-Century North Carolina
This article investigates the dialect boundary that separates the eastern and western halves of North Carolina using data collected by two very different projects, the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States (LAMSAS) and the Corpus of American Civil War Letters (CACWL). Using LAMSAS data collected in the 1930s from speakers born in the late-nineteenth century, Hans Kurath posited that such a boundary extended across North Carolin…
About All: Studies in Nineteenth-Century American English I
This article argues that American English before the twentieth century has been significantly under-documented, even in works like the Dictionary of American English, because of the inaccessibility of manuscript evidence, specifically from personal correspondence. It outlines a recently initiated project, the Corpus of American Civil War Letters (CACWL), which provides such evidence from the letters and diaries of little-educated soldiers in the …
Historical and Comparative Perspectives Ona-Prefixing in the English of Appalachia
This article both expands and confirms research on a relic grammatical feature, the prefix a- on present participles. Because previous work has concentrated on its occurrence in the English of Appalachia and only synchronically, first its superregional distribution is shown. The article then surveys its evolution from a preposition (on or at) + gerund in Early Middle English to the prefix a- + participle. The article assesses possible transatlant…
The morphology and syntax of Ulster Scots
Ulster differs from the other three historical provinces of Ireland in the presence of Ulster Scots, an off-shoot of Lowland Scots brought principally from the Western and Central Lowlands of Scotland in the 17th century through a plantation established by King James I and through periodic migrations, especially in times of economic duress in Scotland. Since that time Ulster Scots has been spoken in rural parts of Counties Antrim, Donegal, Down, …
Notes on the Development of Existential They
This paper examines expletive they, a form occasionally noted in the literature (especially on Appalachian English) but heretofore not analyzed. It examines phonological and syntactic patterns in which the form occurs and explores four hypotheses for its development. Two of these posit that expletive they reflects a phonological process of postvocalic /r/ loss from expletive there and a third that it is derived from pronominal they, which has an …
Presidential Address
Research Article| November 01 2005 PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: VOICES OF MY ANCESTORS: A PERSONAL SEARCH FOR THE LANGUAGE OF THE SCOTCH-IRISH MICHAEL MONTGOMERY MICHAEL MONTGOMERY Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2005) 80 (4): 341–365. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-80-4-341 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation MICHAEL MONTGOMERY; PRESIDENTIAL ADDRE…
The History of American English
L'A. souleve les besoins des recherches historiques sur l'anglais americain du 17 e au 19 e siecle, une periode au cours de laquelle se sont formees la plupart des varietes sociales et regionales de l'americain. Il examine et critique alors les methodes et materiaux utilises par les chercheurs pour ces etudes sur l'anglais americain et envisage de nouvelles approches et perspectives. Il montre qu'une collaboration entre linguistes et historiens e…
On the Trail of Early Nonstandard Grammar: An Electronic Corpus of Southern U.S. Antebellum Overseers' Letters
Research Article| November 01 2001 ON THE TRAIL OF EARLY NONSTANDARD GRAMMAR: AN ELECTRONIC CORPUS OF SOUTHERN U.S. ANTEBELLUM OVERSEERS' LETTERS EDGAR W. SCHNEIDER; EDGAR W. SCHNEIDER Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google MICHAEL B. MONTGOMERY MICHAEL B. MONTGOMERY Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2001) 76 (4): 388–410. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-76-4-388 Cite Icon Cite Share …
The Formation of American English
Research Article| November 01 2000 THE FORMATION OF AMERICAN ENGLISH MICHAEL B. MONTGOMERY MICHAEL B. MONTGOMERY Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2000) 75 (4): 380–382. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-75-4-380 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Si…
Eighteenth-Century Sierra Leone English: Another Exported Variety of African American English
This essay examines the language of an expatriate community as found in letters and petitions written by African Americans who migrated to Sierra Leone by way of Nova Scotia in 1792. These documents provide some of the earliest first-hand evidence of African American English and contribute to debates about the history of that variety. The paper compares selected grammatical features in that variety to modern-day African Nova Scotian English for i…
The Confederados: Old South Immigrants in Brazil
A Hundred Years of Solecisms
The Crucible of Carolina: Essays in the Development of Gullah Language and Culture
Explaining Usage to the Public
Research Article| December 01 1994 9. Explaining Usage to the Public Michael Montgomery Michael Montgomery University of South Carolina, Columbia Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Publication of the American Dialect Society (1994) 78 (1): 62–70. https://doi.org/10.1215/-78-1-62 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Michael Montgomery; 9. Explaining Usage to the P…
The Pragmatics of Multiple Modal Variation in North and South Carolina
Depuis une vingtaine d'annees, des etudes consacrees aux verbes modaux multiples de type might could se sont limitees au domaine syntaxique. Le present article aborde la distribution sociale et geographique de ces verbes et explore les dimensions pragmatiques de leur emploi par une approche fonctionnelle
Locating Dialect in Discourse: The Language of Honest Men and Bonnie Lassies in Ayr
Locating Dialect in Discourse: The Language of Honest Men and Bonnie Lassies in Ayr. Ronald K. S. Macaulay. Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. 293 pp
Double Modals in Scotland and the Southern United States: Trans-Atlantic Inheritance or Independent Development
Article DOUBLE MODALS IN SCOTLAND AND THE SOUTHERN UNITED STATES: TRANS-ATLANTIC INHERITANCE OR INDEPENDENT DEVELOPMENT? was published on January 1, 1993 in the journal Folia Linguistica (volume 27, issue Historica-vol-14-1-2)
The black men has wives and Sweet harts [and third person plural - s ] Jest like the white men”: Evidence for verbal - s from written documents on 19th-century African American speech
The analysis of letters written by 19th-century African Americans shows constraints on verbal - s marking which parallel those found in the writing of Scotch-Irish immigrants in the same time period and region, specifically a subject type constraint and a proximity to subject constraint. This correlation is highly suggestive for the study of the development of African American Vernacular English (AAVE). This study finds no support for a basis fro…
Linguistic Atlas of the Gulf States
Visually Based Descriptions of an Everyday Action
A technique is described for analyzing everyday behaviors into units of action. The basis of this technique is both theoretical and empirical. Theoretically, an argument is made that a basic unit level exists in everyday action and that this basic unit is characterized as a minimal transformation of the environment by the agent. In this study, we demonstrate that observers naive to this hypothesis about the nature of action nevertheless segmented…
In Which: A New Form in Written English
IN THE PAST DECADE OR SO, A CURIOUS STRUCTURE has apparently become quite widespread in American English. Actually several closely related structures, it involves the use of in which in ways most native speakers would not recognize as idiomatic or appropriate to standard written English.' Examples of different types of nonstandard in which, the term we will adopt for this set of structures, are shown in sentences (1)-(5), all of which are drawn f…
Annotated Bibliography of Southern American English
Annotated Bibliography of Southern American English
An updated and much expanded version of the first edition, published in 1971 by the University of Miami Press. Lists nearly 4000 popular and scholarly works on the various dialects spoken between Maryland and Texas, between Kentucky and Florida. The annotations are brief and descriptive. Among the 1
Exploring the Roots of Appalachian English
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The Pragmatics of Multiple Modal Variation in North and South Carolina
Depuis une vingtaine d'annees, des etudes consacrees aux verbes modaux multiples de type might could se sont limitees au domaine syntaxique. Le present article aborde la distribution sociale et geographique de ces verbes et explore les dimensions pragmatiques de leur emploi par une approche fonctionnelle
The black men has wives and Sweet harts [and third person plural - s ] Jest like the white men”: Evidence for verbal - s from written documents on 19th-century African American speech
The analysis of letters written by 19th-century African Americans shows constraints on verbal - s marking which parallel those found in the writing of Scotch-Irish immigrants in the same time period and region, specifically a subject type constraint and a proximity to subject constraint. This correlation is highly suggestive for the study of the development of African American Vernacular English (AAVE). This study finds no support for a basis fro…
On the Trail of Early Nonstandard Grammar: An Electronic Corpus of Southern U.S. Antebellum Overseers' Letters
Research Article| November 01 2001 ON THE TRAIL OF EARLY NONSTANDARD GRAMMAR: AN ELECTRONIC CORPUS OF SOUTHERN U.S. ANTEBELLUM OVERSEERS' LETTERS EDGAR W. SCHNEIDER; EDGAR W. SCHNEIDER Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google MICHAEL B. MONTGOMERY MICHAEL B. MONTGOMERY Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2001) 76 (4): 388–410. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-76-4-388 Cite Icon Cite Share …
Linguistic Atlas of the Gulf States
The Crucible of Carolina: Essays in the Development of Gullah Language and Culture
Eighteenth-Century Sierra Leone English: Another Exported Variety of African American English
This essay examines the language of an expatriate community as found in letters and petitions written by African Americans who migrated to Sierra Leone by way of Nova Scotia in 1792. These documents provide some of the earliest first-hand evidence of African American English and contribute to debates about the history of that variety. The paper compares selected grammatical features in that variety to modern-day African Nova Scotian English for i…
Notes on the Development of Existential They
This paper examines expletive they, a form occasionally noted in the literature (especially on Appalachian English) but heretofore not analyzed. It examines phonological and syntactic patterns in which the form occurs and explores four hypotheses for its development. Two of these posit that expletive they reflects a phonological process of postvocalic /r/ loss from expletive there and a third that it is derived from pronominal they, which has an …
Historical and Comparative Perspectives Ona-Prefixing in the English of Appalachia
This article both expands and confirms research on a relic grammatical feature, the prefix a- on present participles. Because previous work has concentrated on its occurrence in the English of Appalachia and only synchronically, first its superregional distribution is shown. The article then surveys its evolution from a preposition (on or at) + gerund in Early Middle English to the prefix a- + participle. The article assesses possible transatlant…
The Phonology of the Lost Cause: The English of the Confederados in Brazil
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Lamsas, Cacwl, and the South–south Midland Dialect Boundary in Nineteenth-Century North Carolina
This article investigates the dialect boundary that separates the eastern and western halves of North Carolina using data collected by two very different projects, the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States (LAMSAS) and the Corpus of American Civil War Letters (CACWL). Using LAMSAS data collected in the 1930s from speakers born in the late-nineteenth century, Hans Kurath posited that such a boundary extended across North Carolin…
About All: Studies in Nineteenth-Century American English I
This article argues that American English before the twentieth century has been significantly under-documented, even in works like the Dictionary of American English, because of the inaccessibility of manuscript evidence, specifically from personal correspondence. It outlines a recently initiated project, the Corpus of American Civil War Letters (CACWL), which provides such evidence from the letters and diaries of little-educated soldiers in the …
The morphology and syntax of Ulster Scots
Ulster differs from the other three historical provinces of Ireland in the presence of Ulster Scots, an off-shoot of Lowland Scots brought principally from the Western and Central Lowlands of Scotland in the 17th century through a plantation established by King James I and through periodic migrations, especially in times of economic duress in Scotland. Since that time Ulster Scots has been spoken in rural parts of Counties Antrim, Donegal, Down, …
Locating Dialect in Discourse: The Language of Honest Men and Bonnie Lassies in Ayr
Locating Dialect in Discourse: The Language of Honest Men and Bonnie Lassies in Ayr. Ronald K. S. Macaulay. Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. 293 pp
In Which: A New Form in Written English
IN THE PAST DECADE OR SO, A CURIOUS STRUCTURE has apparently become quite widespread in American English. Actually several closely related structures, it involves the use of in which in ways most native speakers would not recognize as idiomatic or appropriate to standard written English.' Examples of different types of nonstandard in which, the term we will adopt for this set of structures, are shown in sentences (1)-(5), all of which are drawn f…
A Note on Ya'll
The semantics of winning and losing
Headlines reporting the outcomes of professional and college football games for an entire football season from two major newspapers were analyzed in an attempt to answer three questions: (1) What kind(s) of language do sportswriters use in attempting to be playful or humorous? (2) Is there a pattern to the number of ways winning and losing can be described? (3) What effects might creative use of language in such headlines have on the English lang…
West Virginia Mountain Speech
Prescriptivism in Dictionary Making
Language Variety in the South: Perspectives in Black and White
Language Variety in the South: Perspectives in Black and White
Southern Sociolinguistic Perspectives in Black and White
Exploring the Roots of Appalachian English
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A Note on Ya'll
The semantics of winning and losing
Headlines reporting the outcomes of professional and college football games for an entire football season from two major newspapers were analyzed in an attempt to answer three questions: (1) What kind(s) of language do sportswriters use in attempting to be playful or humorous? (2) Is there a pattern to the number of ways winning and losing can be described? (3) What effects might creative use of language in such headlines have on the English lang…
Annotated Bibliography of Southern American English
Annotated Bibliography of Southern American English
An updated and much expanded version of the first edition, published in 1971 by the University of Miami Press. Lists nearly 4000 popular and scholarly works on the various dialects spoken between Maryland and Texas, between Kentucky and Florida. The annotations are brief and descriptive. Among the 1
The Phonology of the Lost Cause: The English of the Confederados in Brazil
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In Which: A New Form in Written English
IN THE PAST DECADE OR SO, A CURIOUS STRUCTURE has apparently become quite widespread in American English. Actually several closely related structures, it involves the use of in which in ways most native speakers would not recognize as idiomatic or appropriate to standard written English.' Examples of different types of nonstandard in which, the term we will adopt for this set of structures, are shown in sentences (1)-(5), all of which are drawn f…
Visually Based Descriptions of an Everyday Action
A technique is described for analyzing everyday behaviors into units of action. The basis of this technique is both theoretical and empirical. Theoretically, an argument is made that a basic unit level exists in everyday action and that this basic unit is characterized as a minimal transformation of the environment by the agent. In this study, we demonstrate that observers naive to this hypothesis about the nature of action nevertheless segmented…
Double Modals in Scotland and the Southern United States: Trans-Atlantic Inheritance or Independent Development
Article DOUBLE MODALS IN SCOTLAND AND THE SOUTHERN UNITED STATES: TRANS-ATLANTIC INHERITANCE OR INDEPENDENT DEVELOPMENT? was published on January 1, 1993 in the journal Folia Linguistica (volume 27, issue Historica-vol-14-1-2)
The black men has wives and Sweet harts [and third person plural - s ] Jest like the white men”: Evidence for verbal - s from written documents on 19th-century African American speech
The analysis of letters written by 19th-century African Americans shows constraints on verbal - s marking which parallel those found in the writing of Scotch-Irish immigrants in the same time period and region, specifically a subject type constraint and a proximity to subject constraint. This correlation is highly suggestive for the study of the development of African American Vernacular English (AAVE). This study finds no support for a basis fro…
Linguistic Atlas of the Gulf States
Explaining Usage to the Public
Research Article| December 01 1994 9. Explaining Usage to the Public Michael Montgomery Michael Montgomery University of South Carolina, Columbia Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Publication of the American Dialect Society (1994) 78 (1): 62–70. https://doi.org/10.1215/-78-1-62 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Michael Montgomery; 9. Explaining Usage to the P…
The Pragmatics of Multiple Modal Variation in North and South Carolina
Depuis une vingtaine d'annees, des etudes consacrees aux verbes modaux multiples de type might could se sont limitees au domaine syntaxique. Le present article aborde la distribution sociale et geographique de ces verbes et explore les dimensions pragmatiques de leur emploi par une approche fonctionnelle
Locating Dialect in Discourse: The Language of Honest Men and Bonnie Lassies in Ayr
Locating Dialect in Discourse: The Language of Honest Men and Bonnie Lassies in Ayr. Ronald K. S. Macaulay. Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. 293 pp
A Hundred Years of Solecisms
The Crucible of Carolina: Essays in the Development of Gullah Language and Culture
The Confederados: Old South Immigrants in Brazil
Eighteenth-Century Sierra Leone English: Another Exported Variety of African American English
This essay examines the language of an expatriate community as found in letters and petitions written by African Americans who migrated to Sierra Leone by way of Nova Scotia in 1792. These documents provide some of the earliest first-hand evidence of African American English and contribute to debates about the history of that variety. The paper compares selected grammatical features in that variety to modern-day African Nova Scotian English for i…
The Formation of American English
Research Article| November 01 2000 THE FORMATION OF AMERICAN ENGLISH MICHAEL B. MONTGOMERY MICHAEL B. MONTGOMERY Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2000) 75 (4): 380–382. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-75-4-380 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Si…
On the Trail of Early Nonstandard Grammar: An Electronic Corpus of Southern U.S. Antebellum Overseers' Letters
Research Article| November 01 2001 ON THE TRAIL OF EARLY NONSTANDARD GRAMMAR: AN ELECTRONIC CORPUS OF SOUTHERN U.S. ANTEBELLUM OVERSEERS' LETTERS EDGAR W. SCHNEIDER; EDGAR W. SCHNEIDER Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google MICHAEL B. MONTGOMERY MICHAEL B. MONTGOMERY Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2001) 76 (4): 388–410. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-76-4-388 Cite Icon Cite Share …
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