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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
Periodical Source Index, 1847-1985: Places
Author: Periodical Source Index
Author: Master Register of Bicentennial Projects, February 1976
Author: American Revolution Bicentennial AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Handbook of the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States
Author: William A. KretzschmarPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226452838
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Who uses "skeeter hawk," "snake doctor," and "dragonfly" to refer to the same insect? Who says "gum band" instead of "rubber band"? The answers can be found in the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States (LAMSAS), the largest single survey of regional and social differences in spoken American English. It covers the region from New York state to northern Florida and from the coastline to the borders of Ohio and Kentucky. Through interviews with nearly twelve hundred people conducted during the 1930s and 1940s, the LAMSAS mapped regional variations in vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation at a time when population movements were more limited than they are today, thus providing a unique look at the correspondence of language and settlement patterns. This handbook is an essential guide to the LAMSAS project, laying out its history and describing its scope and methodology. In addition, the handbook reveals biographical information about the informants and social histories of the communities in which they lived, including primary settlement areas of the original colonies. Dialectologists will rely on it for understanding the LAMSAS, and historians will find it valuable for its original historical research. Since much of the LAMSAS questionnaire concerns rural terms, the data collected from the interviews can pinpoint such language differences as those between areas of plantation and small-farm agriculture. For example, LAMSAS reveals that two waves of settlement through the Appalachians created two distinct speech types. Settlers coming into Georgia and other parts of the Upper South through the Shenandoah Valley and on to the western side of the mountain range had a Pennsylvania-influenced dialect, and were typically small farmers. Those who settled the Deep South in the rich lowlands and plateaus tended to be plantation farmers from Virginia and the Carolinas who retained the vocabulary and speech patterns of coastal areas. With these revealing findings, the LAMSAS represents a benchmark study of the English language, and this handbook is an indispensable guide to its riches.
Wabash County History Bicentennial Edition 1976, Wabash, Indiana
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Category : Wabash County (Ind.)
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Official Master Register of Bicentennial Activities
Author: American Revolution Bicentennial AdministrationPublisher:
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Category : American Revolution Bicentennial, 1776-1976
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
The National Register of Historic Places, 1976
Author: A Centennial History of the State Historical Society of Missouri, 1898-1998
Author: Alan R. HavigPublisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 9780826211699
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Havig addresses such key topics as the growth of the society's collections; the reference library; the Western Historical Manuscript Collection; and an extensive assortment of visual art, including a famed collection of works by Thomas Hart Benton and George Caleb Bingham. Havig also examines the society's collaboration with the University of Missouri in obtaining physical space for its operations; its work with local groups in promoting special events such as Missouri's centennial in 1920-1921; the society's outstanding publications program; its role in the placement of historic markers along Missouri highways; its sponsorship of History Day; and numerous other endeavors made by the society to preserve and disseminate Missouri's rich heritage to the state's citizens. A Centennial History of the State Historical Society of Missouri, 1898-1998 will be of special value to professionals working in Missouri history and in the field of state and local history.
Carroll County, Maryland
Author: Nancy M. WarnerPublisher:
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Category : Carroll County (Md.)
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Official Master Register of Bicentennial Activities. Jan. 1975
Author: American Revolution Bicentennial AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description