That is really good news. I happen to be lucky enough to have bought a copy
when the PhilSoc was selling off surplus stock yonks ago, but it was
paperback (in fact really unbound) and you can imagine what it looks like
after a lot of handling. Let's just hope these online versions are decently
searchable, as such things often aren't. Perhaps the greatest work on
English phonetics of the 19th century, and full of the most fascinating
discussion of standard and variation. Ellis makes the really acute point
(which most writers on pronunciation before him didn't believe or notice,
and most after until quite recent times refused to recognise, that a
standard is variable because it's a natural language. Ellis (forget where in
that immense volume) remarks that there are lots of ways of pronouncing
certain categories even in the most elevated language, and that a standard
is a descriptive artefact. He gives some fascinating examples including
Shakespearean actors using different forms of BATH in dialogue in the same
scene.
He is also the first person to recognise regional features (in this case not
entirely correctly, but close) in an extraterritorial variety as far as I
know, by identifying New Zealand English (this is 1879) as Australian Essex.
Thanks for all this information Dave.
RL
-----Original Message-----
From: Variationist List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Dave
Sayers
Sent: 10 July 2013 03:15 PM
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Subject: AJ Ellis 'On Early English Pronunciation' Part V online
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
--
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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