Northern English: historical lexis and spelling

  1. Ruano-García, Javier 1
  2. Sánchez-García, Pilar 1
  3. Garcia-Bermejo Giner, Maria F. 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Salamanca
    info

    Universidad de Salamanca

    Salamanca, España

    ROR https://ror.org/02f40zc51

Llibre:
Researching Northern English
  1. Raymond Hickey (coord.)

Editorial: Jonh Benjamins Publishing Company

ISSN: 0172-7362

ISBN: 9789027249159,  9789027267672

Any de publicació: 2015

Pàgines: 131-158

Tipus: Capítol de llibre

DOI: 10.1075/VEAW.G55.06RUA GOOGLE SCHOLAR

Resum

This chapter looks at Northern English lexis and spelling through the evidence provided by literary representations of the North written between 1500–1700 and 1800–1900. It provides a diachronic overview of the lexical and spelling information given by a group of texts included in the Salamanca Corpus. We argue that these kinds of artefacts are valuable repositories of data that add to the lexical record of Northern English, and at the same time that the spellings used in literary representations of Northern English give historical insight into processes like the northern lack of rounding or oo-fronting.