The Hambleton Dialect
Description
The complete thesis comprises six chapters. The Hambleton dialect is defined as the speech of the farms and villages on the slopes and at the foot of the Hambleton Hills, and the study is chiefly concerned with speakers born in the villages of Kepwick, Borrowby, Knayton, Silton (i.e. Nether Silton), Hawnby and Cowesby. The chapters give a descriptive account of the sounds of the modern dialect, the development of the Middle English sound system in the modern dialect (vowels in stressed and unstressed syllables, the consonants), an outline of the grammar of the dialect and specimens of dialect texts and of the modern dialect (including conversation, verses and a short story).
Metadata
| Identifier | qpk232y7 |
| IRN | 410000 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRP/1/104 |
| Level | File |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/qpk232y7 |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Postgraduate Theses and Dissertations |
| Creator(s) | Wood, W |
| Date | 1942 |
| Size and Medium | viii, 35 unbound typed leaves; xiii, 77 unbound typed leaves; xiii, 91 unbound typed leaves. 3 files. |