FYI: Linguistic Atlas of the Middle Rockies

Author:	Lamont Antieau
Linguistic Field(s):	Sociolinguistics Text/Corpus Linguistics
Language Family:	None
FYI Body:	The Linguistic Atlas of the Middle Rockies is now available as a freely downloadable collection of machine-readable texts at: www.illocutioninc.com. The collection comprises 70 Atlas interviews conducted in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming from 1988 to 2004, with interviews covering aspects of family and community history, local flora and fauna, ranching and farming, household items, etc. Transcribed in standard orthography, the entire collection comprises nearly 1.7 million words that can be used to analyze middle Rocky Mountain English in terms of its lexical, morphological, syntactic and discourse properties.