FOCUS ON: ENGLAND AND WALES -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- The voicing of initial fricatives in Middle English* -- References -- Sociolinguistic aspectsof place-names: Ethnic affiliation and the pronunciation of Welsh in the Welsh capital -- The study -- Dimension A -- Dimension B -- Dimension C -- Conclusions -- References -- The sound system of a West Midland dialect: Kniveton, Derbyshire -- Appendix A -- References -- Spatial aspectsof linguistic change in Surrey, Kent and Sussex -- References -- Researchon non-standard dialects of British English: Progress and prospects (1) -- 1.0 Introduction -- 2.0 Sources of information on non-standard grammar -- 2.1 The main grammatical studies -- 2.2 Other sources of grammatical data -- 2.2.1 Phonological and lexical studies -- 2.2.2 'Data-banks' -- 2.2.3 Dialect literature -- 2.2.4 Non-specialist accounts -- 3.0 A survey of British geographical regions -- 3.1 Scotland -- 3.2 Northern England -- 3.3 The Midlands and East Anglia -- 3.4 The South -- 3.5 Wales -- 3.6 Ireland -- 3.7 General works -- 4.0 Features of dialect grammar: an overview -- 4.1 Negation -- 4.1.1 Multiple negation -- 4.1.2 Auxiliaries -- 4.1.3 AIN'T and some other forms of TO BE -- 4.1.4 NEVER as past tense negative -- 4.1.5 Negative scope -- 4.1.6 Negative attraction -- 4.2 Present tense verb forms -- 4.2.1 Endings of the present tense -- 4.2.2 TO BE -- 4.2.3 TO DO/TO HAVE -- 4.2.4 Present participle -- 4.3 Past tense verb forms -- 4.3.1 Irregular forms -- 4.3.2 TO BE -- 4.4 Modal auxiliaries -- 4.5 Other verbal forms and constructions -- 4.5.1 Imperative -- 4.5.2 Infinitive -- 4.5.3 Perfective aspect -- 4.5.4 Habitual aspect -- 4.5.5 Passive voice -- 4.5.6 Other points -- 4.6 Adverbs -- 4.6.1 Without -ly -- 4.6.2 Intensification -- 4.6.3 Other points -- 4.7 Prepositions.

4.8 Plural of nouns -- 4.8.1 Unmarked plurality -- 4.8.2 Irregular plurals -- 4.9 Pronouns -- 4.10 Demonstratives -- 4.11 Comparison -- 4.11.1 Distribution of the formation mechanisms -- 4.11.2 Double comparison -- 4.11.3 Other aspects of comparison -- 4.12 Other aspects of grammar -- 4.12.1 Articles -- 4.12.2 Adjectives -- 4.12.3 Conjunctions -- 4.12.4 Genitive -- 4.12.5 Emphasis -- 4.12.6 Typical tags -- 4.12.7 Style -- 4.12.8 Final points -- 5.0 Conclusions -- 5.1 Theoretical implications of dialect research -- 5.2 Educational implications of dialect research -- 5.3 General conclusions -- References -- Amn't I, or the hole in the pattern -- References -- He took the bottle and put 'n in his pocket: The object pronoun it in present-day Somerset -- References -- Tyneside syntax:A presentation of some datafrom the Tyneside Linguistic Survey -- Introduction -- The Sample -- Conclusion -- References -- Use and non-use of prepositions in spatial expressions in the dialect of Cambridgeshire -- Introduction -- Expressions of motion or direction to or towards a goal -- Expressions of motion or direction away from a point or place -- Expressions of motion or direction away from a point or place -- Expressions of location or position -- Concluding observations -- Abbreviations and signs -- References -- Welsh English: A grammatical conspectus -- Fronting -- Expletive there -- Indirect question word order -- Infinitive for participle -- Possession -- General vernacular features -- Conclusion -- References -- Fieldworkfor the Survey of Anglo-Welsh Dialects: North Wales 1980-81 -- References -- The data of the Survey of English Dialects computerised: Key and conventions -- Conventions -- References -- On the interrelationship of British and American English: Morphological evidence -- References -- Index -- Authors' addresses.

This volume is a wide-ranging study in dialectology. General surveys appear along with in-depth studies of particular problems. Some papers describe the present situation in terms of dynamic synchrony, others deal with the past and making use of present-day dialectal data to help solve certain problems and, finally, those that draw on the past to explain the present. Traditional dialectological methodology is presented here, as is modern quantificational and computative dialectology. Moreover, regional English and Welsh English are investigated on the phonological, morphological and syntactical levels.

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