Author: Eugene Crampton ScottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presbyterian Church
Languages : en
Pages : 846
Book Description
Ministerial Directory of the Presbyterian Church, U. S., 1861-1941
Author: Eugene Crampton ScottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presbyterian Church
Languages : en
Pages : 846
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.
The Virginia Landmarks Register
Author: Calder LothPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813918626
Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
The Virginia Landmarks Register, fourth edition, will create for the reader a deeper awareness of a unique legacy and will serve to enhance the stewardship of Virginia's irreplaceable heritage.
The Ministerial Directory
Author: Edgar Sutton RobinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presbyterian Church
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Historical and Biographical Catalogue of the Officers and Students of the Western Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian Church, at Allegheny City, Penna., 1827-1899
Author: Western Theological Seminary (Allegheny, Pa.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The African Repository
Author: Historical and Biographical Catalogue of the Officers and Students of the Western Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian Church, at Allegheny City, Penna., 1827-1885
Author: Western Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian ChurchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Historical Gazetteer of the United States
Author: Paul T. HellmannPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135948585
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 2245
Book Description
The first place-by-place chronology of U.S. history, this book offers the student, researcher, or traveller a handy guide to find all the most important events that have occurred at any locality in the United States.
Minor Sketches of Major Folk and where They Sleep
Author: Dora Chinn JettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epitaphs
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The cemetery is known as the Old Masonic burying ground, the Old Masonic cemetery and the old burying ground of Fredericksburg Lodge, no. 4, A.F. and A.M.
Early Churches of Culpeper County, Virginia
Author: Arthur Dicken ThomasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description