American Regional Dialects : A Word Geography
Hardcover
1987 · Ann Arbor
by Carver, Craig M.
Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1987. Hardcover. VG-/VG- clean and tight but art school ex-lib. with usual marks.. Maroon cloth/boards; gilt lettering. Ivory dj with bw map; black lettering. Mylar cover. xiii, 317 pp. with several bw maps illustrations. The first comprehensive description of the dialects of the US, focusing on some 2,000 dialect expressions. The book traces cultural and historical forces that have shaped these speech regions and given them their characteristic vocabularies. With nearly 100 maps. (Inventory #: 159418)