| Description |
1 online resource (207 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Studies in World Englishes Ser |
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Routledge Studies in World Englishes Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction: Researching the Shetland dialect -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Previous research on Shetland speech -- 1.2.1 History: Languages and language shifts -- 1.2.2 Shetland speech in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries -- 1.2.3 Current change -- 1.3 Aim and scope -- 1.3.1 Aim -- 1.3.2 Scope -- 1.4 Structure of the book -- 2 The Shetland Isles: Language and society -- 2.1 The Shetland Isles -- 2.1.1 Locality |
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2.1.2 Modern Shetland society -- 2.1.3 History -- 2.2 Shetland's linguistic history: Settlements and linguistic periods -- 2.3 The linguistic situation in Shetland -- 2.3.1 Lowland Scotland and the bipolar speech range -- 2.3.2 Scots and Scottish Standard English -- 2.3.3 The linguistic situation in Shetland: An outline -- 2.3.3.1 Poles -- 2.3.3.2 Speech range(s) between the poles -- 2.3.3.3 Intra-speaker variation within the speech range(s) -- 2.3.3.4 Functional division between the poles -- 2.3.4 Linguistic change: Some signs -- 2.3.5 The future |
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3 Fieldwork in the Shetland Isles: Methodological issues -- 3.1 Speakers -- 3.1.1 Geographic coverage of the Shetland Isles -- 3.1.2 Speaker selection criteria -- 3.1.3 Speaker recruitment procedure -- 3.2 Speech materials -- 3.2.1 Lexical-phonological questionnaire -- 3.2.2 Vowel lists -- 3.2.3 Quantity lists -- 3.2.4 Additional material -- 3.3 Fieldwork -- 3.4 Acoustic analysis -- 4 The vocabulary and grammar of the Shetland dialect -- 4.1 Lexis -- 4.1.1 Introduction -- 4.1.2 Distinctive lexis: Some semantic fields -- 4.1.3 A note on lexical distinctiveness |
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4.1.4 The main sources of the traditional Shetland dialect lexis -- 4.1.4.1 Old Norse and Norn -- 4.1.4.2 Low German and Dutch -- 4.1.4.3 Celtic and French -- 4.1.5 Resources for the lexis of the Shetland dialect -- 4.1.5.1 Scots resources -- 4.1.5.2 Shetland-specific resources -- 4.1.5.3 Lexical recognition studies -- 4.2 Grammar -- 4.2.1 Introduction -- 4.2.2 Nouns -- 4.2.2.1 Articles -- 4.2.2.2 Plural -- 4.2.2.3 Gender -- 4.2.2.4 Diminutives -- 4.2.3 Pronouns -- 4.2.3.1 Personal pronouns -- 4.2.3.2 Demonstrative pronouns -- 4.2.3.3 Relative pronouns -- 4.2.3.4 Reflexive pronouns |
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4.2.3.5 Interrogative pronouns -- 4.2.3.6 Indefinite pronouns -- 4.2.3.7 Existential there: past vs. present tense -- 4.2.4 Verbs -- 4.2.4.1 Inflectional classes: regular vs. irregular verbs -- 4.2.4.2 To be and to have -- 4.2.4.3 Auxiliary verbs -- 4.2.4.4 Perfective be -- 4.2.4.5 Progressive aspect -- 4.2.4.6 Subject-verb agreement -- 4.2.4.7 Negation -- 4.2.4.8 Syntactic features -- 4.2.5 Adjectives -- 4.2.6 Adverbs -- 4.2.7 Conjunctions -- 4.2.8 Prepositions -- 4.2.9 Interjections -- 5 The sound system of the Shetland dialect -- 5.1 Vowels -- 5.1.1 Descriptive framework for vowel variation |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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5.1.2 Systemic aspects |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000214925 |
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1000214923 |
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