Author: Charles Edwards LesterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Our First Hundred Years
Author: Charles Edwards LesterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Our First Hundred Years. The Life of the Republic of the United States of America, Illustrated in its Four Great Periods. Colonization, Consolidation, Development, Achievement
Author: Charles Edwards LesterPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385544092
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Schuyler County, N.Y., the First Hundred Years, 1854-1954
Author: Schuyler County (N Y ) Centennial CoPublisher: Hassell Street Press
ISBN: 9781019356395
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A comprehensive history of Schuyler County, New York, from its founding in 1854 to its centennial in 1954. With its detailed accounts of the county's development, economy, and social life, as well as its numerous photographs and maps, this book is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the history of upstate New York. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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 First Hundred Years of Townville and Vicinity...
Author: Mary Ann Bidwell HigbyPublisher:
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Category : Townville (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Schuyler County, New York
Author: Schuyler County Historical SocietyPublisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1596520760
Category : Schuyler County (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Schuyler County, N.Y.
Author: Schuyler County (N.Y.). Centennial CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Schuyler County (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
History of Tioga, Chemung, Tompkins and Schuyler Counties, New York
Author: Henry B. PeircePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chemung County (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1094
Book Description
Author: Albert Hazen Wright
Author: