6. Emphatic “yes” and “no” in Eastern English: jearse and dow

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. 1. Dialect formation and dialect change in the Industrial Revolution: British vernacular English in the nineteenth century 8
5. 2. The dialect of the Isles of Scilly: Exploring the relationship between language production and language perception in a Southern insular variety 39
6. 3. A new dialect for a new village: Evidence for koinéization in East Kent 74
7. 4. The clergyman and the dialect speaker: Some Sussex examples of a nineteenth century research tradition 110
8. 5. I’ll git the milk time you bile the kittle do you oon’t get no tea yit no coffee more oon’t I: Phonetic erosion and grammaticalisation in East Anglian conjunction-formation 132
9. 6. Emphatic “yes” and “no” in Eastern English: jearse and dow 148
10. 7. Steps towards characterizing Bristolian 188
11. 8. ‘I don’t think I have an accent’: Exploring varieties of southern English at the British Library 227
12. 9. The historical geographical distribution of periphrastic do in southern dialects 262
13. Index 293