Aspects of Non-Standard Relativization: A Study of Relative Clauses in the Dorset Dialect, in the Vein of Traditional Dialectology, with Some Socio-Linguistic Refinements
Description
A doctoral thesis which examines the mechanisms underlying dialectal relative patterning, and uses the dialect of Dorset by way of illustration. The corpus of material upon which the study is based comprises two sub-corpora: a spoken section comprising tape-recorded interviews conducted by the collector in Dorset between April 1985 and August 1987 (thirteen informants from the Dorset mainland, and nine informants from the Isle of Portland), and a written section comprising relative clauses extracted from dialectal verse and prose (the poems of William Barnes, Robert Young and various contributors to the 'Dorset Year Book', years 1908-1930, and prose writings in the same publication, 1914-1930). The thesis was submitted to the University of Louvain, Leuven, in Flanders. It is undated, but an accompanying letter from the author to Tom Shippey of the University of Leeds, dated 1992, refers to my recently defended dissertation. Volume One is divided into four parts. The first concerns methodology, and includes an introduction to the county of Dorset, an overview of British Dialectology and previous studies on Dorset dialect (including the work of William Barnes, Alexander Ellis, Joseph Wright and Kurt Urlau), critiques of the work of Bertil Widènand the Survey of English Dialects, and a description of the present corpus and the collection of data. Part Two focusses on the theoretical aspects of relativization, and includes sections on a number of theoretical frameworks. Part Three presents data analysis and results, with chapters on the influence of semantic factors on non-standard relativization, the influence of perceptual factors on dialectal relative clause formation, syntactic and social relpro-selection governors. Part Four discusses the historical dimension of the present study and overall conclusions. Volume Two presents as an appendix the data comprising the corpus, in the form of transcriptions of the spoken and the written Dorset vernacular, and analyses of the data in figures and tabular form. A letter from the author to Tom Shippey, inserted inside the front cover of Volume 1, refers to the impending publication of the thesis in book form. This book, 'Syntactic Variation and Unconscious Linguistic Change: A Study of Adjectival Relative Clauses in the Dialect of Dorset' , was published in 1993 in the 'University of Bamberg Studies in English Linguistics' series (Volume 33). The letter asks that some of the unpublished SED Dorset data, consulted in Leeds by the author, be incorporated into the book.
Metadata
| Identifier | dl4xfpst |
| IRN | 410404 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRP/4/010 |
| Level | File |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/dl4xfpst |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Non-Institute Theses and Dissertations |
| Creator(s) | Eynden, Nadine Van den |
| Date | [1992] |
| Size and Medium | 2 bound volumes. x, 242 typed leaves; x, 159 typed leaves. |