Past tense BE forms in Late Modern Lancashire English. A preliminary corpus-based approach
- Although the alternation between was and were has been extensively recorded in modern varieties of British and overseas English, there is comparatively little information about the distribution of was and were in older varieties of speech. This has been largely due both to the scarcity of old regional material, and the consequent lack of dia- chronic dialect corpora. In light of this, this paper looks at some of the Lancashire texts included in the Salamanea Corpus. It examines the evidence provided by literary representations of the dialect with regard to past tense BE forms. Though largely neglected for linguistic investigation, literary samples of Lancashire English may go some way towards casting light on the forms of BE in the county between 1700 and 1900. Our aim is thus twofold: firstly, to contribute to previous research into past tense BE forms in Lancashire by adding historical data that have not been thus far considered, and secondly, to illustrate the linguistic possibilities of the corpus, arguing that it may serve as a complementary missing link to expand the database of English diachronic dialectology.
Author: | Javier Ruano-Garcia, Maria F. Garcia-Bermejo GinerGND, Pilar Sanchez-Garcia |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-127795 |
ISBN: | 978-3-8233-6760-4 |
Parent Title (English): | New methods in historical corpora |
Series (Serial Number): | Korpuslinguistik und interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf Sprache | Corpus Linguistics and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Language | CLIP (3) |
Publisher: | Narr |
Place of publication: | Tübingen |
Editor: | Paul Bennett, Martin Durrell, Silke Scheible, Richard Whitt |
Document Type: | Part of a Book |
Language: | English |
Year of first Publication: | 2013 |
Date of Publication (online): | 2024/08/08 |
Publishing Institution: | Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) |
Publicationstate: | Zweitveröffentlichung |
Reviewstate: | (Verlags)-Lektorat |
Tag: | Lancashire English |
GND Keyword: | Englisch; Historische Sprachwissenschaft; Korpus <Linguistik>; Sprachvariante; Tempus; Vergangenheitstempus |
First Page: | 181 |
Last Page: | 194 |
DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 400 Sprache, Linguistik |
Open Access?: | ja |
Linguistics-Classification: | Korpuslinguistik |
Licence (German): | ![]() |