Screen LibraryThe handbook of dialectology /
This Handbook provides an authoritative, up-to-date and unusually broad account of the study of dialect, in one volume. Each chapter reviews essential research, and offers a critical discussion of the past, present and future development of the area. The volume is based on state-of-the-art research...
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Wiley Blackwell/John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,
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| Publisher Address: | Hoboken, NJ : |
| Publication Dates: | 2018. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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Blackwell Handbooks in linguistics
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| Summary: |
This Handbook provides an authoritative, up-to-date and unusually broad account of the study of dialect, in one volume. Each chapter reviews essential research, and offers a critical discussion of the past, present and future development of the area. The volume is based on state-of-the-art research in dialectology around the world, providing the most current work available with an unusually broad scope of topics. It provides a practical guide to the many methodological and statistical issues surrounding the collection and analysis of dialect data; offers summaries of dialect variation in the |
| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Carrier Form: | ix, 600 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), tables, maps (some color) ; 26 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9781118827550 1118827554 9781119068419 111906841X |
| Index Number: | P367 |
| CLC: | H07-62 |
| Call Number: | H07-62/H236 |
| Contents: | 1. Dialectology, philology and historical linguistics / Raymond Hickey -- 2. The dialect dictionary / Jacques Van Keymeulen -- 3. Linguistic atlases / William A. Kretzschmar, Jr. -- 4. Structural dialectology / Matthew J. Gordon -- 5. Dialectology and formal linguistic theory : the blind man and the lame / Frans Hinskens -- 6. Sociodialectology / Tore Kristiansen -- 7. Dialectometry / Hans Goebl -- 8. Dialect contact and new dialect formation / David Britain -- 9. Dialect change in Europe, leveling and convergence / Peter Auer -- 10. Perceptual dialectology / Dennis R. Preston -- 11. Dialect |