The Linguistic Atlas of New England (LANE), edited by Hans Kurath in collaboration with Miles L. Hanley, Bernard Bloch, Guy S. Lowman, Marcus L. Hansen and Julia Bloch, is a book of linguistic maps describing the dialects of New England in the 1930s.
[1] LANE consists of 734 maps over three volumes, and is the first major study of the dialects in the northeastern United States.
In 1930, the LSA Council requested a trial run in a limited area, so that a method could be established and budget estimates could be taken for further work in other regions.
Linguists who had experience mapping the dialects of Switzerland and Italy, Jakob Jud and Paul Schauermeier, assisted in the training process.
After this initial historical investigation by Marcus L. Hansen (University of Illinois), data collection commenced.
[2] The Handbook of the Linguistic Geography of New England (1939), by Hans Kurath and Miles L. Hanley was published in conjunction with LANE.
Volume 3 included topics of societal institutions as well as several verb forms and other parts of speech.