Dialect change and maintenance on the Outer Banks

Dialect change and maintenance on the Outer Banks / Walt Wolfram, Kirk Hazen, Natalie Schilling-Estes.

Author/creator	Wolfram, Walt, 1941-
Other author/creator	Hazen, Kirk.
Other author/creator	Schilling-Estes, Natalie.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Tuscaloosa : Published for The Society by the University of Alabama Press, ©1999.
Description	xiv, 209 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Subject(s)	English language--Dialects --North Carolina --Outer Banks. Americanisms--North Carolina --Outer Banks. Outer Banks (N.C.)--Social conditions.

Series	Publication of the American Dialect Society ; no. 81 Publication of the American Dialect Society ; no. 81. ^A319010
Contents	List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface -- A sociolinguistic study of the Outer Banks -- The sociohistorical context of the Outer Banks -- A profile of Outer Banks English -- Subject-verb concord in Outer Banks English -- Weren't regularization: an alternative concord pattern -- The shifting status of Outer Banks /aj/ -- Mixing Outer Banks and Southern /o/ -- Isolation within isolation: an ethnolinguistic boundary on the Outer Banks -- Dialect awareness and the community: a proactive program -- Appendix: Ocracoke interview questionnaire -- References -- Index.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-205) and index.
LCCN	98040086
ISBN	0817309535

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	NC Stacks	PE3101.N76 W65 1999	✔ Available	Place Hold