English Dialects
From the Eighth Century to the Present Day

This 1911 text sketches beginnings of dialects in England, the elements of Scandinavian and French influence on them, and their gradual development.

Walter W. Skeat (Author)

9781107401877, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 11 August 2011

152 pages
20.3 x 12.7 x 0.9 cm, 0.17 kg

Originally published during the early part of the twentieth century, the Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature were designed to provide concise introductions to a broad range of topics. They were written by experts for the general reader and combined a comprehensive approach to knowledge with an emphasis on accessibility. Published in 1911, W. W. Skeat's English Dialects from the Eighth Century to the Present Day offers a sketch of the beginnings of dialects in England, the elements of Scandinavian and French influence on them, and their gradual development over a period of twelve hundred years.

Preface
1. Dialects and their value
2. Dialects in early times
3. The dialects of Northumbria, till AD 1300
4. The dialects of Northumbria, AD 1300–1400
5. Northumbrian in the fifteenth century
6. The southern dialect
7. The southern dialect of Kent
8. The Mercian dialect
9. Foreign elements in the dialects
10. Later history of the dialects
11. The modern dialects
12. A few specimens
Bibliography
Index
Facsimile: the only English proclamation of Henry III.

Subject Areas: Language: history & general works [CBX]