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Description: | Francis talks about the increase in prices for livestock since he first started farming and describes the impact of the recent severe winter.
lexis
thick = this; heifer = young cow before first calf; slipper = slippery; mind = to remember
phonology
rhoticity
MOUTH [EU]; PRICE [aI ~ a:I]; NORTH [O`:]; START [A`:]; NURSE [@`:]; NEAR [I@`]; LOT [A]; BATH [a:]; lettER [@`]
note also one [wQn], wasn’t [wAd=n], little [lId=L/], calf [ka:v], it is [tIz], thirty [T@`:di] and windOWs [wInd@z]
grammar
periphrastic do (I’ve got one cow I do milk for myself = I milk for myself)
zero auxiliary (my son _ got thick land; he _ got that other as well; they _ got all the machinery; he _ had some money coming to hine, you know, these last ten years; he _ been on his own, what, fifteen years mother, haven’t he, this one?)
multiple negation (I haven’t got nothing now; I can never remember none so bad; we never had nothing like it)
masculine object pronoun ® hine (he had some money coming to hine, you know, these last ten years)
third person singular have (he been on his own, what, fifteen years mother, haven’t he, this one?; I don’t know what it’ve been like up-country; down here it’ve been terrible for us)
zero plural marker on noun (ninety to a hundred pound apiece; seventeen to eighteen pound)
some as intensifier (roads are some slipper)
zero past tense marker (we left them out in the garden and they were never brought in and they live = and they lived) | 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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