Sociolinguistic variation in Smith Island English : existential it

• Main Author: Setliff, Rebecca.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Georgetown University 1988
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Smith Island (Md. and Va.); English language > Dialects > Smith Island (Md. and Va.) > Case studies; Sociolinguistics > Smith Island (Md. and Va.); Sociolinguistics > Case studies; Smith Island (Md. and Va.) > Social life and customs; Smith Island
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10822/553161

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Georgetown University, 1988.; Includes bibliographical references.; Text (Electronic thesis) in PDF format. Smith Island, located 11 miles off the Eastern Shore of Maryland in the Chesapeake Bay, just north of the Maryland-Virginia boundary, is a geographically isolated community. Sp...