Senior Lecturer in English Language Dr Mike Pearce has written a major new grammar of North East English. Drawing on a naturalistic corpus of contemporary vernacular writing, the grammar covers morphology, syntactic linkage, syntax, and the organisation of discourse. This new work appears alongside Mike's archived research on his Dialectological Landscapes of North East England site, where you can read about perceptual dialectology, the 'survival' of traditional dialect lexis, the use of vernacular forms in the linguistic landscape, and the origins and meanings of the region's ethnonyms.
