The dialects of Irish: study of a changing landscape
The dialects of Irish: study of a changing landscape
Accompanying DVD-ROM contains ... "recordings of more than 200 speakers."--Page 4 of cover. More complete list of recordings on pp. [501]-506.
The dialects of Irish: study of a changing landscape
The book offers an easy-to-grasp overview of forms of modern Irish within a general linguistic framework. Based on recordings of more than 200 speakers (accessible as supplementary material on the accompanying DVD), the book demonstrates the vitality and breadth of the present-d…
What determines whether we say She gave him a book instead of She gave a book to him? The author views this 'dative alternation' as a sociolinguistic variable and explores its distribution across different British English dialects, registers and time frames. It thereby offers a …
"Containing all new material and published for the American Dialect Society's centennial celebration (1889-1989), this volume brings together in one place, as no previously published work has, current approaches to the general problems of language distribution and variation. The…