Real English: The Grammar of English Dialects in the British Isles

ISBN-13: 9780582081765 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 362 str.

Milroy, James

Opis

Aims to make available accurate information on regional variation in the use of the grammatical constructions of English, and to direct readers to those resources where further information on regional variation is available.

Spis treści

Editors' preface
Acknowledgements

Part I: Dialect in Education
1. Syntactic variation in non-standard dialects: background issues, Jenny Cheshire and Jim Milroy
2. Sociolinguistics in the classroom: exploring linguistic diversity, Jenny Cheshire and Viv Edwards
3. Non-standard English and dialect levelling, Jenny Cheshire, Viv Edwards and Pamela Whittle

Part II: Regional variation in English grammar: case studies
4. The grammar of Scottish English, Jim Miller
5. The grammar of Irish English, John Harris
6. The grammar of Tyneside and Northumbrian English, Joan Beal
7. The grammar of Southern British English, Viv Edwards
Appendix to part II: Glossary of grammatical terms

Part III: Resources
8. A directory of English dialect resources: The English counties, Viv Edwards

Index

O autorze

James Milroy, Lesley Milroy