Lancashire English in diachronic perspectiveevidence from the Salamanca Corpus

  1. Javier Ruano-García 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Salamanca
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    Universidad de Salamanca

    Salamanca, España

    ROR https://ror.org/02f40zc51

Book:
Language Windowing through Corpora
  1. Isabel Moskowich-Spiegel Fandiño (coord.)
  2. Begoña Crespo García (coord.)
  3. Inés Lareo Martín (coord.)
  4. Paula Lojo Sandino (coord.)

Publisher: Servizo de Publicacións ; Universidade da Coruña

ISBN: 978-84-9749-401-4

Year of publication: 2010

Volume Title: Part II, L-Z

Volume: 2

Pages: 771-787

Congress: International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (2. 2010. A Coruña)

Type: Conference paper

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Abstract

This paper looks at some of the Lancashire texts hitherto included in the Salamaca Corpus, with a viewto illustrating how this might contribute to bridging some of the gaps still existing in the field of Englishdiachronic dialectology. For this purpose, the paper provides a preliminary diachronic insight intomorphological issues related to the use of was/were in the county of Lancashire.

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