John Benjamins Publishing Company
Tyneside
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Adam Mearns
Abstract
Tyneside is an area of North East England consisting mainly of a conurbation centred on the city of Newcastle and the town of Gateshead, on either side of the River Tyne. This chapter outlines distinctive features and key changes in the accent and dialect of this region, linking current characteristics with historical migrations and reflecting on the social patterning of ongoing developments, as revealed in the wealth of recent studies of the area. It focuses in particular on the research from the late 1960s to the present which has produced or subsequently exploited the various datasets of sociolinguistic interviews recently amalgamated in the Diachronic Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English (Corrigan et al. 2012, http://research.ncl.ac.uk/decte).
Abstract
Tyneside is an area of North East England consisting mainly of a conurbation centred on the city of Newcastle and the town of Gateshead, on either side of the River Tyne. This chapter outlines distinctive features and key changes in the accent and dialect of this region, linking current characteristics with historical migrations and reflecting on the social patterning of ongoing developments, as revealed in the wealth of recent studies of the area. It focuses in particular on the research from the late 1960s to the present which has produced or subsequently exploited the various datasets of sociolinguistic interviews recently amalgamated in the Diachronic Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English (Corrigan et al. 2012, http://research.ncl.ac.uk/decte).
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Preface vii
- List of contributors ix
- The North of England and Northern English 1
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The North of England
- The enregisterment of Northern English 27
- The Great Vowel Shift in the North of England 51
- Morphosyntactic features of Northern English 71
- The history of present indicative morphosyntax from a northern perspective 99
- Northern English 131
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Locations within the North
- Tyneside 161
- Sunderland 183
- Carlisle and Cumbria 205
- Sheffield 227
- Middlesbrough 251
- Lancashire 271
- Manchester English 293
- Language attitudes and divergence on the Merseyside/Lancashire border 317
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The North
- Borders and boundaries in the North of England 345
- The East Midlands 369
- The West Midlands 393
- Between North and South: The Fenland 417
- The north above the North 437
- Non-native northern English 459
- Index 479
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Preface vii
- List of contributors ix
- The North of England and Northern English 1
-
The North of England
- The enregisterment of Northern English 27
- The Great Vowel Shift in the North of England 51
- Morphosyntactic features of Northern English 71
- The history of present indicative morphosyntax from a northern perspective 99
- Northern English 131
-
Locations within the North
- Tyneside 161
- Sunderland 183
- Carlisle and Cumbria 205
- Sheffield 227
- Middlesbrough 251
- Lancashire 271
- Manchester English 293
- Language attitudes and divergence on the Merseyside/Lancashire border 317
-
The North
- Borders and boundaries in the North of England 345
- The East Midlands 369
- The West Midlands 393
- Between North and South: The Fenland 417
- The north above the North 437
- Non-native northern English 459
- Index 479
