| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 310 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
"A publication in the Centennial series of the American Dialect Society in celebration of the beginning of its second century of research into language variation in America." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-301) and index. |
| Contents |
Problems in Midwest English : introduction and overview / Timothy C. Frazer -- Two heartland perceptions of language variety / Dennis R. Preston -- On inland northern and the factors for dialect spread and shift / Thomas S. Donahue -- Language of Yankee cultural imperialism : pioneer ideology and "general American" / Timothy C. Frazer -- Black English and Standard English in Chicago / Andrew Sledd -- Linguistic controversies, VBE structures, and Midwest attitudes / Timothy J. Riney -- Farmer City, Illinois : sound systems shifting south / Timothy Habick -- Language of St. Louis, Missouri : dialect mixture in the urban Midwest / Thomas E. Murray -- Sound change and gender in a working-class community / Robin Herndobler -- Yankee words in Chicago Black speech / Michael I. Miller -- Positive anymore in the Midwest / Thomas E. Murray -- Some dialect features in the speech of Missouri Germans / Donald M. Lance -- Regional speech variation in Wisconsin / Craig M. Carver -- "Kentuck" English in Wisconsin's Cutover region / Donald Larmouth and Marjorie Remsing -- Elements of Midwestern speech in Oklahoma / Bruce Southard -- Regional variation in Missouri / Rachel B. Faries and Donald M. Lance -- Use of all the + comparative structure / Erik R. Thomas. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English language -- Variation -- Middle West.
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English language -- Variation. |
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Middle West. |
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English language -- Middle West.
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English language. |
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Americanisms -- Middle West.
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Americanisms. |
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Middle West -- Languages.
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Language and languages. |
| Indexed Term |
English language Dialects |
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United States |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Frazer, Timothy C.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: "Heartland" English. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©1993 0817306757 (DLC) 92031253 (OCoLC)26766015 |
| ISBN |
0585176795 (electronic book) |
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9780585176796 (electronic book) |
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0817306757 (alkaline paper) |
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9780817306755 (alkaline paper) |
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