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English Dialect Dictionary Online

A New Departure in English Dialectology

Manfred Markus author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:18th Feb '21

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With step-by-step instructions, this guide shows how to get the best from EDD Online, a freely available English dialect dictionary.

Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary, the most comprehensive dialect dictionary ever published, is now freely available digitally, as EDD Online. With easy-to-follow instructions and screenshots, this detailed user guide shows how to get the most out of this unparalleled resource. It will be invaluable to a wide range of linguistic fields.Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary (1898-1905) is the most comprehensive English dialect dictionary ever written, documenting in detail every dialect of English in the British Isles and Ireland, as well as the USA, Canada, South Africa, and other colonial regions. Over the past ten years, it has been brought to life digitally as a freely available database resource, EDD Online, which provides access to this rich collection of dialect data. This book is a comprehensive user guide to EDD Online, showing how to get the most out of this unparalleled resource with step-by-step instructions, illustrated with handy screenshots, and an appendix containing full colour figures. It also considers dialectological issues from phonetics to pragmatics, and how searches can be tailored to specific linguistic concerns, demonstrating the interface's enormous potential to contribute to research in a range of disciplines, from dialectology, to fields such as historical linguistics, corpus linguistics, lexicography and sociolinguistics.

ISBN: 9781108840651

Dimensions: 236mm x 160mm x 20mm

Weight: 500g

220 pages