A Grammar of the Dialect of Great Hale, Lincolnshire

Description

M.Phil. thesis in three parts. Part One is based on, and a rewriting of, the collector's 1960 B.A. dissertation on the phonology of the living dialect of Great Hale (see LAVC/SRP/2/237). The postgraduate thesis draws on fieldwork material collected in 1959 for this dissertation, augmented by further fieldwork interviews carried out between 1960 and 1964. Following an introductory section detailing the village and parish of Great Hale, and providing biographical notes on the informants, the five chapters in Part One (Phonology) give a descriptive account of the sounds of the dialect recorded in 1959, 1960 and 1964, the development of Middle English sounds in the dialect (vowels of stressed syllables), a tabular summary of the sources of the stressed vowels in the dialect, the development of Middle English sounds in the dialect (vowels of syllables not bearing the main stress) and the development of consonants from the Old and Middle English periods down to the 1969. Volume Two contains Part Two (Morphology) and Three (Vocabulary). Part Two contains chapters on nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs and other parts of speech. Part Three comprises chapters analysing words of difficult or unknown etymology and words of late appearance, and notes on meaning. Three appendices provide Lincolnshire words occurring in various records, but not known in Great Hale, a select list of homophones and a note on word order. Four maps and a population graph are also provided.

Metadata

Identifier nvxx2gnb
IRN 410020
Class Mark LAVC/SRP/1/124
Level File
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/nvxx2gnb
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Postgraduate Theses and Dissertations
Creator(s) Brown, Robin
Date 1969
Size and Medium xxx, 632 bound typed leaves. 2 volumes.

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