Jack Chambers (1)

Chambers's dialect topography project is not the comprehensive it purports to be by any means, but it is an innovative way of presenting the results of many of the author's dialect topography studies in a browsable (BUT hard to use), interactive form. Basically what I'm saying is it's a series of maps showing how people say stuff around the Golden Horseshoe and other locales back east. I don't know about the focus on single lexical items ("chesterfield"), which I guess shows I am to some degree taking on the rule-craving prejudices of the linguist, as opposed to the novelty-craving ones of the dialectologist.… (mehr)