The Linguistic Atlas of England

Harold Orton, Stewart Sanderson, John Widdowson, Harold Orton, Stewart Sanderson, John Widdowson

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• eBook ISBN:
  9781136188596
• Subtopic: Linguistics
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

This fascinating record of how English is spoken in England is now being reprinted. Over 400 maps detail differences in phonology, lexicon, morphology and syntax. The Atlas provides a unique survey of the linguistic geography of England.
This volume was inspired by the English Dialect Survey which set out to elicit information about the current dialectical usages of the older members of the farming communities throughout rural England. The Survey secondly mapped this information to illustrate the regional distributions of those features of their speech which persisted from ancient times.
Published after Orton's death, the publication of this volume testified to the sustained interest in the lingusitic geography of England.

APPENDIX 1

INDEX TO QUESTIONS

In this Index the map number and atlas keyword are followed by the questionnaire number and the text of the question as presented in the final (1957) version of the Survey's Questionnaire for a Linguistic Atlas of England:

Since the import of a specific question sometimes depended on the context of preceding questions within that section of the questionnaire, and sometimes on a general preliminary statement by the fieldworker about the topic to be covered in a particular section, abbreviated contextual information is supplied where necessary in this Index in square brackets directly after the questionnaire number. The symbol □ in the questionnaire instructed the fieldworker to show the informant a photograph or drawing. The symbol ... instructed the fieldworker to ask “What do you call” or “What's your word for” in ‘naming’ questions, and to pause and allow the informant to complete the sentence in ‘completing’ questions. The abbreviations g, i, and p were instructions to gesticulate, indicate or imitate, and point, respectively.

The Questionnaire included a number of items referred to as ‘conversion’ type questions. The field-workers, having elicited the response for, say, the first person singular of the verb, were instructed to convert the question in order to elicit other numbers and tenses. As the actual conversions used probably varied from one fieldworker to another (though probably without affecting the responses significantly) the editors have printed the questions in the form in which they appear in the Questionnaire, together with the instruction to convert for other forms.

Ph1	APPLES	IV. 11.8	What common fruits do you grow here?
Ph2	CARROTS	V.7.18	□ ... these garden vegetables?
Ph3	CHAFF	II.8.5	[in threshing corn]... the light stuff blown away?
Ph4	LAST	VII.2.2	[order of sheep coming through gate (p)] Which is this?
Ph5	MAN	VIII. 1.6	A boy grows up into a youth and then into a....
Ph6	WRONG	IX.7.1a	Am I right or am I ... ?
Ph7	AMONG	IX.2.12	Where did you say that rabbit was in the garden ? Well, do you see those potatoes? I think it's somewhere ... them.
Ph8	WALK	VIII.7.10	Suppose you missed the last bus or train back to here, then you'd have to set off and ....
Ph9	CALF	III.1.2	[cattle: breeding] ... the young animals just born?
Phl0	HALF	VII.5.4	[□ half past seven] What time is this?
Ph11	ARM	VI.6.8	[p] ... this?
Ph12	ARSE	VI.9.2	[p] ... this, that you sit on?
Ph13	WEDNESDAY	VII.4.2	... the days at the beginning of the week?
Ph14	KETTLE	V.8.7	You boil water for tea in a ....
Ph15	FELLIES	1.9.9	[□ cart] ... these sections of the wooden rim?
Phl6	ELM	IV. 10.4	[if informant omits elm in listing local trees] ... that other tree with hard wood, which is often used for making coffins and clogs; when old, it's easily blown over?
Ph17	SHELF	V.9.4	[p] ... this, on which you keep ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Dedication
• Forward
• Abbreviations
• List Of Localities
• The International Phonetic Alphabet
• Introduction
• Phonological Maps
• Lexical Maps
• Morphological Maps
• Syntactical Maps
• Appendix 1: Index to Questions
• Appendix 2: Notes on the Mapped Lexical Responses
• Appendix 3: Unmapped Lexical Responses
• Index