Dialect change and maintenance on the Outer Banks /
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Author / Creator: | Wolfram, Walt, 1941- |
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Imprint: | Tuscaloosa : Published for The Society by the University of Alabama Press, c1999. |
Description: | xiv, 209 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Publication of the American Dialect Society. no. 81 |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3669308 |
Summary: | This is a socio-linguistic study of the two small, insular societies of North Carolina's Ocracoke and Harkers Islands. Features examined of these island dialects include subject-verb concord, weren't-regulization, and the complex relationship between southern and Outer Banks vowels. |
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Physical Description: | xiv, 209 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-205) and index. |
ISBN: | 0817309535 |