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Description: | Mr Carrington describes the traditional technique for laying and maintaining a hedge.
lexis
brash = twigs; road = way; pleach = intertwined branches and stakes forming a hedge; want = to need; lap = to wrap
phonology
definite article + V ® [D]; H-dropping
PRICE [Ai ~ Qi]; GOAT [AU]; FACE [{I]; MOUTH [{U]; GOOSE [}:]; START [a:]; STRUT [U]
note also one [wQn], once [wUns] and none [nQn], because [bIkO:s], take [tEk] and make [mEk], them [Um], go [gu:], only [QnI] and follOW [fQl@]
grammar
relative pronoun ® as (side it on the one side as you’m going to lay; them as you don’t want; it’s the roots as want the water; you’ll see hedge as grows straight off the bottom at ground level)
second person am (side it on the one side as you’m going to lay)
zero auxiliary (you _ got to work then on your pleach)
complemetiser, so that ® as (level with your pleach as when the water comes down on it, it has one straight run straight off; always keep it flat as the water can get down to the roots)
demonstrative pronoun, those ® them (them as you don’t want)
zero indefinite article (you’ll see _ hedge; you’ll never make _ hedge-layer like that)
adjective as adverb (a pleach must go down natural)
gender assigned to it (as you put him (= pleach) down there, so he must stop)
zero plural marker on noun (two foot; two foot six; three foot six)
note use and phonetic quality of utterance final discourse marker you see [j@ si:] | 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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