Program

Research Programs: Basic Research

Period of Performance

3/1/1972 - 6/30/1976

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$303,898.00 (approved)
$303,898.00 (awarded)


Dictionary of American Regional English

FAIN: RO-11825-72

University of Wisconsin, Madison (Madison, WI 53715-1218)
E.G. Cassidy (Project Director: March 1972 to present)

To edit data on regional and local usage of American English into dictionary form. Certain unique features of the dictionary will be make possible by computer handling and by advances in lexicography. The collecting of data was supported by the U.S. Office of Education in cooperation with the University of Wisconsin.