TWO LARGE-SCALE AND LONG-TERM LANGUAGE VARIATION SURVEYS: A RETROSPECTIVE AND A PLAN

Authors

  • Clive Upton
  • Carmen Lllamas

Keywords:

Dialectology, methods in dialectology, English dialects, linguistic atlases

Abstract

Of the several regional dialecto surveys which have been carried out in the British Isles, the Survey of English Dialects (SED) is whitout dought the best know and the most widely used primary data for language variation studies of many kinds. As we take stock of our subject at the turn of the Millennium, this paper takes the opportunity to put on record the SED method, briefly evaluates its past and continuing contribution, and offers an indication of how some in the English dialectological and sociolinguistic communities may move on from data half a century old with a hope of doing for regional variation data? What SED did it mid century.

Author Biographies

Clive Upton

School of English The University of Leeds

Carmen Lllamas

School of English The University of Leeds

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