... Localised Dialect Literature CHLDL Geordie Liverpool English ing Old English OE pronoun non standard dialectology a prefixing representativeness accent morphology standardisation dialect writing historical dialectology written sources dialect songs passive knowledge active use This chapter...

...This chapter provides an overview of the historical text corpora and digital repositories hosted by the Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics and created by its predecessor, the Institute of Historical Dialectology: A Linguistic Atlas of Late Middle English (LALME...

... of past suffix variants according to stem-final segment, post-war group (H, H’) Figure 3.1 Town clerks and assistant scribes in the Dunfermline court and council records This chapter describes the compilation of a new digital resource for historical dialectology: The Dunfermline Corpus...

...), of the period 1380-1500. This new resource for historical dialectology makes it possible to test earlier assumptions about phonological changes that are characteristic of Scots and not shared with Southern English. This chapter uses LAOS to test the claim that L-vocalisation, which entails the loss of coda-/l...