Date:  Sat, 28 May 1994 21:13:39 -0500

From:  Charles F Juengling <juen0001[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]GOLD.TC.UMN.EDU>

Subject: Re: Textual Dialect & Literacy



On Sat, 28 May 1994, Joseph B. Monda wrote:



> On Thu, 26 May 1994, Clayton Gillespie wrote:

>

> > Howdy (all?) y'all!

> >

> > I have two quick (but not especially easy) questions:

> >

> >  1) Does anyone know of work that attempts dialectological study on

> >    the basis of textual evidence alone. (I.e. phonology is completely

> >    ignored, and preferably syntactical difference is privileged over

> >    word choice.)

>

> The work done on Middle English Dialects by I think Moore, Meech and

> Markwardt

> Joe Monda



"Middle English Dialect Characteristics and Dialect Boundaries" by Moore,

Meech and Whitehall. In _Essays and Studies in English and Comparative

Literature_  Ann Arbor: U of Michigan Press. 1935.