This might be old news, but when I was researching my PhD (*ahem*
http://academia.edu/187910/) I tried in vain to find an electronic copy of A.J. Ellis
'On Early English Pronunciation' Part V -- a landmark early dialectological survey,
or a methodological and empirical tragedy, depending on who you ask!
Well, whilst I was gathering resources today for a course I'm designing on
introductory sociolinguistics, I stumbled upon exactly what I was looking for back
then. Here it is on Google Books:
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=SzHuKjprLfsC&pg=PR1
...and here it is in a variety of online and downloadable formats over at The
Internet Archive:
http://archive.org/details/onearlyenglishpr00elliuoft
Frustratingly, it seems to have first gone online in late 2006 just a few months
after I completed that part of my PhD research! Hey ho... at least now others won't
have to lug it around :)
Now, does anyone know if the Orton et al. Survey of English Dialects is online??
Dave
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Dr. Dave Sayers
Honorary Research Fellow, Arts & Humanities, Swansea University, UK
Visiting Lecturer (2013-14), Dept English, University of Turku, Finland
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