Manfred Markus

English Dialect Dictionary Online

A New Departure in English Dialectology

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Produktbeschreibung

Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary, the most comprehensive dialect dictionary ever published, is now freely available digitally, as EDD Online. With easy-to-follow instructions and screenshots, this detailed user guide shows how to get the most out of this unparalleled resource. It will be invaluable to a wide range of linguistic fields.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: European Community
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9781108840651
• ISBN-10: 1108840655
• Artikelnr.: 59991107

Autorenporträt

Manfred Markus is Professor Emeritus of English Linguistics at the University of Innsbruck, Austria and has published over twenty books and two machine-readable corpora during his career. He has been director of the 'EDD Online' project since 2006.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Orthography
3. Tagging
4. Syntax of EDD entries, and how to describe it
5. Some practical suggestions in hindsight
6. Interface
7. Retrieval window (advanced mode)
8. Research issues, encouraged by EDD Online
9. Focus on quantification: towards dialectometry
10. Final remarks on the accessibility and impact of EDD Online.