The Roots of Appalachian English: Scotch-Irish or Southern British?.
Despite many folklore and cultural history projects seeking to identify the formative immigrant groups of Appalachia and their contributions, there has yet to be a systematic effort to connect Appalachian English to regional varieties of British English. This paper examines 40 grammatical features characteristic of Appalachian speech and identifies which are most likely Scotch-Irish and which are English. More resistant to change than vocabulary or pronunciation, grammar can be determined from old documents, and can be quantified. Table 1 lists the 40 features by parts of speech, and indicates whether the historical currency of each feature both ir Britain and in the U.S. was general or restricted. Table 2 groups the features according to five types of grammatical structures: inflectional forms; word order patterns; grammatical categories’ morphological forms differing from other dialects; and function words. Table 3 removes items whose locale of British origin is questionable and quantifies the five grammatical structural tlIts by general or Appalachian usage and by general British, south British, or Scotch-Irish origin. Of 25 features with only Appalachian usage, 16 are of Scotch-Irish origin. The results suggest a strong link in the grammatical systems of Scotch-Irish English and Appalachian English, a link extending across a range of grammatical feature types. This report contains 31 references. (SV) ******************************************************t**************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. *********************************************************************** THE ROOTS OF APPALACHIAN ENGLISH: SCOTCH-IRISH OR SOUTHERN BRITISH? by Michael Montgomery University of South Carolina BEST COPY AVAILABLE “PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY Clec4 M°K-fe Da-1414 TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC).” U S DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Otke ot Educahonai Research ano Improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) ‘The post The Roots of Appalachian English: Scotch-Irish or Southern British?. appeared first on Modish Project.
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