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  • FOLKTALES OF NEWFOUNDLAND (RLE FOLKLORE)
    HERBERT HALPERT / J.D.A. WIDDOWSON
    This collection of Newfoundland folk narratives, first published in 1996, grew out of extensive fieldwork in folk culture in the province. The intention was to collect as broad a spectrum of traditional material as possible, and Folktales of Newfoundland is notable not only for the number and quality of its narratives, but also for the format in which they are presented. A spec...

    $2,100.00

  • LEARNING ABOUT LINGUISTICS
    F.C. STORK / J.D.A. WIDDOWSON
    This book offers a workbook approach to linguistics and provides guidelines for the study of language. It aims to give basic information and to indicate something of the background and development of the more important trends in the subject. Each chapter includes exercises which lead the reader outwards from the information given in the text. A list of suggested further reading...

    $1,320.00

  • STUDIES IN LINGUISTIC GEOGRAPHY (RLE LINGUISTICS D: ENGLISH LINGUISTICS)
    KIRK, JOHN M. / SANDERSON, STEWART / WIDDOWSON, J.D.A.
    The publication in the past ten years of linguistic atlases of England and Scotland has not only advanced our knowledge of the lexical and morphological variety inherent in the English language, but has made it possible to establish a number of methodological principles for the study of language both in its contemporary distribution and in its historical evolution. The essays i...

    $1,320.00

  • AN ATLAS OF ENGLISH DIALECTS
    CLIVE UPTON / J.D.A WIDDOWSON
    Do you call it April Fools’ Day, April Noddy Day or April Gowkin’ Day? Is the season before winter the Autumn, the Fall or the Backend? When you’re out of breath, do you pant, puff, pank, tift or thock? The words we use (and the sounds we make when we use them) are more often than not a product of where we live, and An Atlas of English Dialects shows the reader where certain wo...

    $1,100.00

  • SURVEY OF ENGLISH DIALECTS
    CLIVE UPTON / DAVID PARRY / J.D.A. WIDDOWSON
    First Published in 1994. The Survey of English Dialects (SED) is the only detailed nation-wide dialect survey which has ever been conducted in England. The SED is a unique repository of data on the traditional dialects of England in the mid-twentieth century. This remarkable record is a valuable resource for scholars in the fields of British English dialectology, sociolinguisti...

    $1,460.00