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Incidental Material Documents (SED)

Introduction

As part of the Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture (LAVC) project, a survey and analysis of Incidental Materal collected by the Survey of English Dialects (SED) fieldworkers was undertaken. This data consists of items of interest collected by SED fieldworkers which were supplemental to the data gathered using the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire. Harold Orton had intended to produce four "companion volumes" of selected Incidental Material as part of the SED publication programme, to accompany and supplement the four Basic Material volumes. His aim in doing so was to "shed light upon the development, in each of the localities investigated, both of the chief Middle English sounds, isolatively and combinatively, and of certain morphological features and syntactical usages" (Orton, SED Introduction, p. 22). These volumes never materialised, and hence there remains within the SED fieldworkers' notebooks much data that has yet to be exploited.

Although much of the Incidental Material collected is of purely linguistic interest, there are also references to local customs, traditions and folklore as well as sketches made by the fieldworkers to illustrate particular notions or objects. In surveying and analysing this material for the LAVC project, documents were produced whereby data items were recorded and arranged into discrete categories in order to make them more readily available to researchers. These categories are Language; Custom and Belief; Material Culture; Birth, Marriage and Death; and Traditional Song, Dance, Music and Drama.

Links to documents produced during the analysis of the SED Incidental Material are provided below. An Incidental Material Introduction document is available, giving background information on the SED and Incidental Material, and further details on the analysis of the Incidental Material for the LAVC project including details of the categories under which the data has been arranged, and conventions and editorial procedures followed by the researcher. The other documents each contain analytical information on the Incidental Material collected in an individual county, arranged by locality and subject category.

Incidental Material Documents

Click on the links below to access PDF files of the Incidental Material Documents. You will need Adobe Acrobat to read these files.

Introduction to Incidental Material Documents
Northumberland/SED 1Nb	Rutland/SED 14R	Hertfordshire/SED 28Hrt
Cumberland/SED 2Cu	Herefordshire/SED 15He	Essex/SED 29Ess
Durham/SED 3Du	Worcestershire/SED 16Wo	Middlesex and London/SED 30MxL
Westmorland/SED 4We	Warwickshire/SED 17Wa	Somerset/SED 31So
Lancashire/SED 5La	Northamptonshire/SED 18Nth	Wiltshire/SED 32W
Yorkshire/SED 6Y	Huntingdonshire/SED 19Hu	Berkshire/SED 33Brk
Isle of Man/SED 6aMan	Cambridgeshire/SED 20C	SurreySED /34Sr
Cheshire/SED 7Ch	Norfolk/SED 21Nf	Kent/SED 35K
Derbyshire/SED 8Db	Suffolk/SED 22Sf	Cornwall/SED 36Co
Nottinghamshire/SED 9Nt	Monmouthshire/SED 23Mon	Devon/SED 37D
Lincolnshire/SED 10Li	Gloucestershire/SED 24Gl	Dorset/SED 38Do
Salop/SED 11Sa	Oxfordshire/SED 25O	Hampshire/SED 39Ha
Staffordshire/SED 12St	Buckinghamshire/SED 26Bk	Sussex/SED 40Sx
Leicestershire/SED 13Lei	Bedfordshire/SED 27Bd

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