Language and Region: · provides an accessible guide to regional variation in English · covers topical issues including loss of regional diversity and attitudes to regional accents and dialects examines the use of dialect in media, advertising and the tourist industry · outlines the main linguistic characteristics of regional accents and dialects in terms of regional pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar · is accompanied by a supporting website
Syntactic doubling is the phenomenon in which a constituent, i.e., a morphosyntactic feature, morpheme, word or phrase, is expressed two or more times within a clause. Since such duplicates are often redundant in that they do not contribute to semantic interpretation, the question arises as to why they are possible or necessary. This theoretical question becomes even more urgent in view of the fact that closely related language varieties such as the dialects of one dialect family often differ with respect to the possibility of doubling.
Northern and Insular Scots
Dialects of English Series
This book is concerned with the Scots dialects of northern Scotland and
the Northern Isles of Orkney and Shetland; dialects spoken by a wide
variety of people living very different lives in divergent natural environments.
