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Program

Preservation and Access: Reference Materials - Tools

Period of Performance

4/1/1977 - 3/31/1981

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$120,307.25 (approved)
$120,307.25 (awarded)

Linguistic Atlas of the North Central States

FAIN: RT-*0469-77

University of Chicago (Chicago, IL 60637-5418)
Raven McDavid (Project Director: November 1976 to October 1990)

To edit three interpretive monographs from the materials collected for Albert H. Marckwardt's Linguistic Atlas of the North Central States. 1) A handbook volume containing material on methodology and historical background, 2) a volume summarizing grammatical evidence, 3) a volume summarizing vocabulary evidence on regional and social variation in the Midwestern United States.