Dialectology

Paper Borders - HOME   Paper Borders Dialects Across Borders: Selected Papers from the 11th International Conference on Methods in Dialectology -methods Xi-joensuu, August 2002 Dialects Across Borders: Selected Papers from the 11th International Conference on Methods in Dialectology -methods Xi-joensuu, August 2002 The Art of Decorative Paper Pricking by Janet Wilson, Janet Wilson shows how to create a stunning series of decorative pictures and beautiful cards. Using Victorian, Celtic and contemporary themes, she combines tracing, paper piercing, embossing, stippling, and cutwork techniques on paper and card surfaces, showing how to build up borders of stylized motifs, flowers, leaves and hearts. Projects also show how to produce delicately ...

Linguistics - HOME   Linguistics Sociolinguistic Variation and Change by Peter Trudgill, This selection of Peter Trudgill's major works since 1988, appearing here in updated and revised form, reveals major recurring themes in his work on linguistic diversity. This book evinces his deep concern that the world's linguistic diversity is diminishing at an alarming rate. The linguistic future is likely to be very different from the past, because increased language contact among peoples will result in the creation of fewer new languages to balance the language deaths. The essays here manifest Trudgill's conviction that linguists must make every effort to study minority languages and dialects before ...

Linguistics - HOME   Linguistics Sociolinguistic Variation and Change by Peter Trudgill, This selection of Peter Trudgill's major works since 1988, appearing here in updated and revised form, reveals major recurring themes in his work on linguistic diversity. This book evinces his deep concern that the world's linguistic diversity is diminishing at an alarming rate. The linguistic future is likely to be very different from the past, because increased language contact among peoples will result in the creation of fewer new languages to balance the language deaths. The essays here manifest Trudgill's conviction that linguists must make every effort to study minority languages and dialects before ...