Definition of Dialect geography

1. Noun. The study of the geographical distribution of linguistic features.

Exact synonyms: Linguistic Geography
Generic synonyms: Linguistics

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dialect Geography

dial manometer
dial phone
dial telephone
dial tone
dial tones
dialable
dialane
dialarhoea
dialdehyde
dialdehydes
dialdose
dialdoses
dialect
dialect atlas
dialect continuum
dialect geography (current term)
dialectal
dialectally
dialectic
dialectical
dialectical materialism
dialectically
dialectician
dialecticians
dialectick
dialectics
dialectless
dialectological
dialectologies
dialectologist

Literary usage of Dialect geography

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Journal of English and Germanic Philology by Ill.) University of Illinois (Urbana (1921)
"... one that has been most liberally financed by the states and organized most carefully. The publications of Wrede's Marburg school on dialect geography, ..."

2. James Martineau: A Biography and Study by Abraham Willard Jackson (1901)
"... dialect, geography, dates, graces or defects of style, all were brought into distinct view; yet without inducing any tedious slowness in the progress, ..."

3. Essays, Reviews, and Addresses by James Martineau (1890)
"... dialect, geography, dates, graces or defects of style, all were brought into distinct view; yet without inducing any tedious slowness in the progress, ..."

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