A Comparative Grammar of British English Dialects, Kortmann B., Herrmann T., Pietsch L., Wagner S., 2005

A Comparative Grammar of British English Dialects, Kortmann B., Herrmann T., Pietsch L., Wagner S., 2005.

Preface.

Bernd Kortmann
Since the 1980s, but especially over the last ten years or so, the study of the grammar of English dialects has been very much on the rise after more than a century of neglect in English dialectology and dialectology, in general. Witness, in particular, Trudgill and Chambers (1991), Milroy and Milroy (1993), and, on a global scale, Kortmann and Schneider (2004). Apart from these and several other publications related in spirit, however, the vast majority of publications on the grammar of English dialects concentrates on just one particular phenomenon in one particular dialect or dialect area, is based on a very small database and purely descriptive. Moreover, the small size of the available databases often makes it very difficult to formulate valid descriptive generalizations. Virtually non-existent in English dialectology are systematic comparative studies of individual grammatical subsystems across a selection of dialects (like comparative studies of the tense and aspect systems, pronominal systems, relativization or complementation patterns, etc.). Exceptions in this respect form the sociolinguistic studies by Tagliamonte and her research team (e.g. Tagliamonte 1999, 2002, 2003), and the contributions, especially the regional and global synopses, in Kortmann and Schneider (2004). However, useful as the synopses are in providing general orientation, they can be no more than very useful starting-points for systematic comparative analyses of individual phenomena of dialect grammar.





2. The Freiburg English Dialect Corpus (FRED).

Given the aims of the Freiburg project it was first of all necessary to compile a database which would allow to conduct serious qualitative and quantitative morphosyntactic research across English dialects. The result is the computerized Freiburg English Dialect Corpus (FRED), which has been compiled over a period of roughly five years (including the digitization of some 120 hours of audio material). FRED consists of approximately 2.5 million words, with representative subsamples for all English dialect areas including data from Scotland and Wales. The data in FRED are orthographically transcribed interviews collected for the most part during the 1970s and 1980s in the course of oral history projects all over the British Isles. The majority of the informants are born between 1890 and 1920, i.e. are roughly a generation younger than the generation of informants who were recruited for the Survey of English Dialects (SED).

Table of Contents.

Preface.
Bernd Kortmann.
The Freiburg English Dialect Project and Corpus (FRED).
Bernd Kortmann and Susanne Wagner.
Relative clauses in English dialects of the British Isles.
Tanja Herrmann.
"Some do and some doesn't": Verbal concord variation in the north of the British Isles.
Lukas Pietsch.
Gender in English pronouns: Southwest England.
Susanne Wagner.
Index.



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