Author: United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic CommercePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 578
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Domestic Commerce
Author: United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic CommercePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Report of the Commission to Investigate and Survey the Sea Food Industry of Virginia
Author: Virginia. Commission on Sea Food IndustryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fish trade
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Bulletin - Virginia Geological Survey
Author: Virginia Geological SurveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Concentration, Integration, and Diversification in the . Grocery Retailing Industry
Author: Russell C. ParkerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Food industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Industrial Development and Manufacturers' Record
Author: The Virginias
Author: Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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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.
Public Works Planning
Author: United States. National Resources CommitteePublisher:
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Category : Natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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