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Description: | Mr Ede compares modern farming practices with those of his younger days. Broome Hall is an estate just to the southwest of Coldharbour.
lexis
and all = too, as well, also
phonology
H-dropping; rhoticity
MOUTH [{U]; PRICE [AI]; START [A`:]; NORTH [O`:]; CLOTH [O:]; NURSE [@`:]; lettER [@`]
note also pretty [pr/Idi], kept [kEp], year [jI@`], arthritis [a:Tr/AItIs], half past [a: pa:s] and half [a:f] and Saturdays [sad@`dIz]
grammar
preterite done (I never done much of that)
zero plural marker on noun (twelve, thirteen year)
verbal inflection with plural pronoun (some likes work and some don’t, do they?; there ain’t many walks now)
third person plural have + negative particle ® ain’t (the old village ain’t [En] altered much)
third person plural be + negative particle ® ain’t (there ain’t many walks now); third person singular be + negative particle ® ain’t (there ain’t [Ent] nobody walking; there ain’t [Ent] nobody now much)
zero relative pronoun (there ain’t many _ walks now)
multiple negation (there ain’t nobody walking; there ain’t nobody now much) | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | University of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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