Discovering english dialects
Auteur :
Wakelin, Martyn F.
Éditeur :
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN :
9780747801764
Date de publication :
17 janv. 1998
Dimensions :
17,7 x 11,3 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Describes the most significant features of English regional dialects, including in its scope the ancient vocabulary of the North, enriched by borrowings from medieval Norsemen, the important north/north midland dialect boundary, old forms of nouns like housen and childer and the remaining traces of extinct Cornish.