Dialect change and maintenance on the Outer Banks / Walt Wolfram, Kirk Hazen, Natalie Schilling-Estes.

Author/creator Wolfram, Walt, 1941-
Other author Hazen, Kirk.
Other author Schilling-Estes, Natalie.
Format Book
Publication InfoTuscaloosa : Published for The Society by the University of Alabama Press, ©1999.
Descriptionxiv, 209 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Subjects
English language--Dialects. --North Carolina. --Outer Banks.
Americanisms--North Carolina. --Outer Banks.
Outer Banks (N.C.)--Social conditions.

SeriesPublication of the American Dialect Society ; no. 81
Publication of the American Dialect Society ; no. 81. ^A319010
Contents List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface -- A sociolinguistic study of the Outer Banks -- The sociohistorical context of the Outer Banks -- A profile of Outer Banks English -- Subject-verb concord in Outer Banks English -- Weren't regularization: an alternative concord pattern -- The shifting status of Outer Banks /aj/ -- Mixing Outer Banks and Southern /o/ -- Isolation within isolation: an ethnolinguistic boundary on the Outer Banks -- Dialect awareness and the community: a proactive program -- Appendix: Ocracoke interview questionnaire -- References -- Index.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 197-205) and index.
LCCN 98040086
ISBN0817309535