A Grammar of the Dialect of Windhill - In the West Riding of Yorkshire - Softcover

Wright, Joseph

9781443771672: A Grammar of the Dialect of Windhill - In the West Riding of Yorkshire

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ISBN 10: 1443771678 ISBN 13: 9781443771672

Verlag: Caffin Press, 2015

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This fascinating text contains a detailed treatise on the dialect of Windhill, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. This text is written with the aim of supplying specialists in English philology with an accurate account of the phonology and accidence of one of the most interesting of the Yorkshire dialects, comprising a comprehensive list of the words which are in common use in the dialect and also existent in the literary language. Chapters included within this text are: Pronunciation; The Old English Equivalents of the Windhill Vowels in Accented Syllables; The Vowels treated historically—The Vowels of Accented Syllables; The French Element—The Vowels; The Vowels in Unaccented Syllables; The Consonants; Nouns; Adjectives; et cetera. This rare antiquarian book was originally published in 1892, and is proudly republished here with a new introduction to the subject.

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This fascinating text contains a detailed treatise on the dialect of Windhill, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. This text is written with the aim of supplying specialists in English philology with an accurate account of the phonology and accidence of one of the most interesting of the Yorkshire dialects, comprising a comprehensive list of the words which are in common use in the dialect and also existent in the literary language. Chapters included within this text are: Pronunciation; The Old English Equivalents of the Windhill Vowels in Accented Syllables; The Vowels treated historically―The Vowels of Accented Syllables; The French Element―The Vowels; The Vowels in Unaccented Syllables; The Consonants; Nouns; Adjectives; et cetera. This rare antiquarian book was originally published in 1892, and is proudly republished here with a new introduction to the subject.

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PREFACE MP chief object in writing the following Gramnar has been to furnish specialists in English philology with an accurato account of the Phonology and Accidencc of one of the most interesting of the Yorkshire dialects. And in order to make the work as useful as possible to this class of scholnr, I havo takcn special care to include in the Phonology fairly complete lists of the words which are common use in the dialect and exist in the literary language. This method of treatment has somctimcs involved me in great difficulties because in the case of words which seem to have had an abnoimal development I could not always decide with certainty whether the seeming irregularities had arisen within the dialect itself, or whether the words in question had been introduced from the literary language at various periods....

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