Semantic Features and Eastern Relics in Colorado Dialect
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8730776 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Clyde Hankey (corresponding author), Clyde T Hankey |
| Year | 1961 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 266-266 |
| Publication date | 1961-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Speech (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1283 • E-ISSN: 1527-2133 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/453799 |
| OpenAlex | W2328382410 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
EYOND THE SPREAD AND MIXTURE of major Eastern dialects in Colorado, and the appearance of both geographical and social usage patterns developed in the state's first seventy-five years, materials collected for the Linguistic Atlas of Colorado2 illustrate two other linguistic developments that are worth mentioning in some detail. Like the files of other Linguistic Atlas projects, the Colorado field records reflect interesting semantic developments that accompany the more clear-cut dialect characteristics of pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary. Atlas records are often less precise about the meanings of terms than they are about the actual use of these terms, but semantic evidence is clear enough to make an analysis of some items possible. Shortly before undertaking the Atlas field work in I950o, Marjorie M. Kimmerle, director of the Linguistic Atlas of the Rocky Mountains and principal Colorado fieldworker, had pointed out some of the semantic peculiarities in Colorado of such words as park, lagoon, silo
Archaeology · Atlas (anatomy · Geography · Grammar · Linguistics · Pronunciation · Semantic field · Toponymy · Vocabulary · Lexicography and Language Studies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies · Geology · History
| Citations per year | 0.12 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2000 - 2017 (18) |
| Highly cited | No |