Dialect of South Lancashire or Tim Bobbin's Tummus and Meary

Dialect of South Lancashire or Tim Bobbin's Tummus and Meary
Author: John Collier
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2014-11-14
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1326080962

John Collier was an English caricaturist and satirical poet known by the pseudonym of Tim Bobbin. His first and most famous work, A View of the Lancashire Dialect, or, Tummus and Mary, appeared in 1746, and is the earliest significant piece of Lancashire dialect to be published He died in 1786 leaving the sum of 50 and was buried in the churchyard of Rochdale Parish Church, St. Chad's. He wrote his own epitaph 20 minutes before he died, ""Jack of all trades...left to lie i'th dark"" which is inscribed upon his gravestone. He had also written a number of other humorous epitaphs for graves, a number of which can still be seen in St. Chad's churchyard. This 1850 edition also includes an enlarged and ammended gloassary of Lancashire Dialect compiled by Samuel Bamford.

On the South Lancashire Dialect

On the South Lancashire Dialect
Author: Thomas Heywood
Publisher: Palala Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2015-08-31
Genre:
ISBN: 9781340600846

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The English Language

The English Language
Author: R. G. Latham
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2021-04-25
Genre: History
ISBN:

The present work was laid before the public, with the intention of representing in a form as systematic as the extent of the subject would allow, those views concerning the structure and relations of the English language, which amongst such scholars as had studied them with the proper means and opportunities, were then generally received; and which, so being received, might take their stand as established and recognized facts. With the results of modern criticism, as applied to his native tongue, it was conceived that an educated Englishman should be familiar. To this extent the special details of the language were exhibited; and to this extent the work was strictly a Grammar of the English Language.

Microparametric Syntax and Dialect Variation

Microparametric Syntax and Dialect Variation
Author: James R. Black
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 289
Release: 1996-11-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027276226

Richard Kayne’s introduction to this volume stresses that comparative work on the syntax of very closely related languages and dialects is a research tool promising to provide both a broad understanding of parameters at their finest-grained and an approach to the question of the minimal units of syntactic variation. The 11 articles in this collection demonstrate the use of this tool in analyzing microparametric variation, principally with reference to Chomsky’s Minimalist program, in a variety of languages. Topics include se/si constructions, hypothetical infinitives and adverbial quantifiers in French and other Romance languages; that-trace variation, Scandinavian possessive constructions, reflexives and subject-verb agreement in Icelandic & Faroese, and verb clusters in continental West Germanic dialects; anaphoric agreement in Labrador Inuttut; negative particle questions in Chinese; imperative inversion in Belfast English; and the second person singular interrogative in the traditional vernacular of Bolton.