Past Tense BE: old and new variants

Anna-Liisa Vasko

Past Tense BE: old and new variants

Anna-Liisa Vasko

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Abstract

This paper discusses the variation and geographic distribution of past tense BE, with particular attention to non-concord of postitive past tense forms. In presenting the variants WAR and WONT it goes beyond the widely documented WAS/WERE and WAS/WEREN'T variation.
The data come from casual conversations with local residents of Cambridgeshire born around the turn of the 20th century and positioned at the lower end of the socio-economic scale. This material is included in the HELSINKI CORPUS OF BRITISH ENGLISH DIALECTS (HD), a collection of tape-recorded interviews gathered in the 1970s and 1980s by Finnish fieldworkers. HD was completed in 2006 and is now being incorporated into into the HELSINKI ARCHIVE OF REGIONAL ENGLISH SPEECH (HARES), an audio archive of the recordings.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of Methods XIII : Papers from the Thirteenth International Conference on Methods in Dialectology, 2008
Editors	Barry Heselwood, Clive Upton
Number of pages	10
Volume	54
Place of Publication	Frankfurt
Publisher	Peter Lang
Publication date	2010
Pages	289-298
ISBN (Print)	978-3-631-61240-8
Publication status	Published - 2010
MoE publication type	A4 Article in conference proceedings

Publication series

Name	Bamberger Beiträge zur Englischen Sprachwissenschaft
Publisher	Peter Lang GmbH
Number	54
ISSN (Print)	0721-281X

Fields of Science

612 Languages and Literature
Cambridgeshire
dialect
speech

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Past Tense BE: old and new variants. / Vasko, Anna-Liisa.
Proceedings of Methods XIII: Papers from the Thirteenth International Conference on Methods in Dialectology, 2008. ed. / Barry Heselwood; Clive Upton. Vol. 54 Frankfurt: Peter Lang , 2010. p. 289-298 (Bamberger Beiträge zur Englischen Sprachwissenschaft; No. 54).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review

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