Grammatical Differences in the North Central States

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ID8728696
AuthorsRaven I Mcdavid (corresponding author), Virginia Mcdavid, Virginia G McDavid
Year1960
Volume35
Issue1
Pages5-5
Publication date1960-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Speech (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-1283 • E-ISSN: 1527-2133
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/453608
OpenAlexW2315880173
LanguageEN
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D ESCRIPTIVE LINGUISTICS, in its broadest aspects, tells us not only what forms occur and in what combinations, but also in what parts of the linguistic community and in the speech or writing of what social groups particular variants may be found.x By examining these regional and social differences within the generally uniform structure of a language, dialectologists are able to correlate linguistic data with patterns of settlement history, regional growth, and social structure; furthermore, they are able to provide a solid basis of fact for the value judgments necessary in such applications of linguistics as lexicography and the teaching of English.2 These regional and social differences have been summarized, for the older settlement area along the Atlantic seaboard, in Hans Kurath's Word Geography of the Eastern United States, in E. Bagby Atwood's Survey of Verb Forms in the Eastern United States, and in Kurath and Raven I. McDavid, Jr.'s forthcoming Pronunciation of English in the Atlantic States.3 This article summarizes the grammatical evidence in the field records for the Linguistic Atlas of the North Central States.'4 Besides the general interest of dialectologists in ac

Dialectology · Geography · Linguistics · Phonology · Pronunciation · Settlement (finance · Verb · Computer Science · Lexicography and Language Studies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies · History

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