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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Roots of English
    sub title: exploring the history of dialects
  name:
    name part: Tagliamonte, Sali A.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    place:
      place term: Cambridge
    publisher: Cambridge University Press
    date issued: c2013
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xv, 253 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  abstract: What is the explanation for the nature, character and evolution of the many different varieties of English in the world today? Which changes in the English language are the legacy of its origins and which are the product of novel influences in the places to which it was transported? Roots of English is a groundbreaking investigation into four dialects from parts of northern Britain out of which came the founding populations of many regions in other parts of the world. Sali Tagliamonte comprehensively describes and analyses the key features of the dialects and their implications for subsequent developments of English. Her examination of dialect features contributes substantive evidence for assessing and understanding bigger issues in sociolinguistic theory. Based on exciting new findings, the book will appeal to those interested in dialects, from the Anglophile to the syntactician"
  table of contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Dialects as a window on the past -- 3. The roots archive -- 4. Methods for analysis -- 5. Word endings -- 6. Joining sentences -- 7. Time, necessity and possession -- 8. Expressions -- 9. Comparative sociolinguistics -- 10. The legacy of British and Irish dialects
  note: Sali A. Tagliamonte
  note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-247) and index
  subject:
    topic: English language
    topic: Dialects
    geographic: Great Britain
  subject:
    topic: English language
    topic: Dialects
    geographic: Great Britain
    geographic: Colonies
  subject:
    topic: English language
    topic: Variation
  classification: PE1711 .T34 2013
  identifier: 0521681898 (paperback : alk. paper)
  identifier: 052186321X (hardback : alk. paper)
  identifier: 9780521681896 (paperback : alk. paper)
  identifier: 9780521863216 (hardback : alk. paper)
  record info:
    record creation date: 130519
    record change date: 20131017093000.0
    record identifier: 0000082979