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Overview

This collection of essays demonstrates the importance of the Linguistic
Atlas of the Gulf States (LAGS) as a defining linguistic study of this
century, though one of the most underused.

Emory University's Lee Pedersen directed and brought to completion the
Linguistic Atlas of the Gulf States, a cumulative study of the language
patterns for eight states of the interior South, from Georgia west to Texas.
The essays comprising From the Gulf States and Beyond include a comprehensive
introduction to and assessment of that mammoth project along with ten essays
of linguistic exploration.

Four essays are specific studies showing the usefulness of LAGS materials.
These include two essays that redefine linguistic boundaries in Alabama
using LAGS data, an exploration of double models (such as might could),
and an examination of gender-based language differences among LAGS informants.

Other essays broaden the discussion to such allied areas as the interrelationship
of LAGS and the Dictionary of American Regional English, other studies
in dialectology, and further research involving lexical and onomastic data.

From the Gulf States and Beyond demonstrates how LAGS material can be
used to address issues important to sociolinguists, dialectologists, folklorists,
and others about the speech and culture of the 20th-century South. In addition
to the authors' own insights, these essays show how the LAGS project has
created an enormous treasury for future research.

The in-depth introduction to LAGS and the essays analyzing linguistic-atlas
data make this volume an essential text for scholars analyzing LAGS and
other linguistic atlas data as well as for linguistics courses in modern
areal dialectology.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780817309480
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Publication date: 11/09/1998
Edition description: First Edition, First Edition
Pages: 336
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Michael Montgomery is Professor of English and Linguistics
at the University of South Carolina and coeditor with James B. McMillan
of Annotated Bibliography of Southern American English.Thomas Nunnally is Associate Professor of English at Auburn University and coeditor of
Language Variety in the South Revisited, also published by this press.

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