Dialect change and maintenance on the Outer Banks /

Dialect change and maintenance on the Outer Banks /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Wolfram, Walt, 1941-
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
Subject:	English language -- Dialects -- North Carolina -- Outer Banks. Americanisms -- North Carolina -- Outer Banks. Americanisms. English language -- Dialects. Language and languages. Social conditions Outer Banks (N.C.) -- Social conditions. North Carolina -- Outer Banks.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3669308

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Other authors / contributors:	Hazen, Kirk. Schilling-Estes, Natalie.
ISBN:	0817309535
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-205) and index.

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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.
Physical Description:	xiv, 209 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-205) and index.
ISBN:	0817309535