Keeping in touch : emigrant letters across the English-speaking world / / edited by Raymond Hickey, University of Duisburg and Essen
| Keeping in touch : emigrant letters across the English-speaking world / / edited by Raymond Hickey, University of Duisburg and Essen |
| Autore | Hickey Raymond |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2019] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (301 pages) |
| Disciplina | 427 |
| Collana | Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics |
| Soggetto topico |
English language - Variation
English language - History - 19th century |
| ISBN | 90-272-6188-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Mining emigrant correspondence for linguistic insights / Raymond Hickey -- The language of emigrant correspondence. Wisconsin immigrant letters: German transfer to Wisconsin English / Angela Bagwell, Samantha Litty and Mike Olson -- I hope you will excuse my bad writing : Shall vs. willin the 1830s Petworth Emigration to Canada Corpus (PECC) / Stefan Dollinger -- Singular, plural, or collective?: grammatical flexibility and the definition of identity in the correspondence of nineteenth-century Scottish emigrants / Marina Dossen -- The language of the Irish emigrant experience. Homesickness, recollections and reunions: topics and emotions in acorpus of female Irish emigrant correspondence / Emma Moreton and Chris Culy -- "I have not time to say more at present": negating lexical have in Irish English / Kevin McCafferty -- "Matt & Mrs Connor is with me now. They are only beginning to learn the work of the camp": Irish emigrants writing from Argentina / Carolina P. Amador-Moren -- Grammatical variation in nineteenth-century Irish Australian letters / Raymond Hickey -- "[S]eas may divide and oceans roll between but Friends is Friends whatever intervene". Emigrant letters in New Zealand / Dania Jovanna Bonness -- Vernacular correspondence: widening the scope. "[T]his is all [,] answer soom" African American vernacular letters from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Lucia Siebers -- Morphosyntactic features in Earlier African American English: a qualitative assessment of semi-literate letters / Alexander Kautzsch -- Memoirs from Central America: a linguistic analysis of personal recollections of West Indian laborers in the construction of the Panama Canal / Stephanie Hackert. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910795375503321 |
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| Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2019] | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Keeping in touch : emigrant letters across the English-speaking world / / edited by Raymond Hickey, University of Duisburg and Essen
| Keeping in touch : emigrant letters across the English-speaking world / / edited by Raymond Hickey, University of Duisburg and Essen |
| Autore | Hickey Raymond |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2019] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (301 pages) |
| Disciplina | 427 |
| Collana | Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics |
| Soggetto topico |
English language - Variation
English language - History - 19th century |
| ISBN | 90-272-6188-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Mining emigrant correspondence for linguistic insights / Raymond Hickey -- The language of emigrant correspondence. Wisconsin immigrant letters: German transfer to Wisconsin English / Angela Bagwell, Samantha Litty and Mike Olson -- I hope you will excuse my bad writing : Shall vs. willin the 1830s Petworth Emigration to Canada Corpus (PECC) / Stefan Dollinger -- Singular, plural, or collective?: grammatical flexibility and the definition of identity in the correspondence of nineteenth-century Scottish emigrants / Marina Dossen -- The language of the Irish emigrant experience. Homesickness, recollections and reunions: topics and emotions in acorpus of female Irish emigrant correspondence / Emma Moreton and Chris Culy -- "I have not time to say more at present": negating lexical have in Irish English / Kevin McCafferty -- "Matt & Mrs Connor is with me now. They are only beginning to learn the work of the camp": Irish emigrants writing from Argentina / Carolina P. Amador-Moren -- Grammatical variation in nineteenth-century Irish Australian letters / Raymond Hickey -- "[S]eas may divide and oceans roll between but Friends is Friends whatever intervene". Emigrant letters in New Zealand / Dania Jovanna Bonness -- Vernacular correspondence: widening the scope. "[T]his is all [,] answer soom" African American vernacular letters from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Lucia Siebers -- Morphosyntactic features in Earlier African American English: a qualitative assessment of semi-literate letters / Alexander Kautzsch -- Memoirs from Central America: a linguistic analysis of personal recollections of West Indian laborers in the construction of the Panama Canal / Stephanie Hackert. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910813323903321 |
Hickey Raymond
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| Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2019] | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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