Grammatical and Lexical Variance in EnglishRoutledge, 2014 M09 19 - 230 páginas Written by one of Britain's most distinguished linguists, this book is concerned with the phenomenon of variance in English grammar and vocabulary across regional, social, stylistic and temporal space. |
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Chapter 2 Variance and the concept of good usage | 10 |
Chapter 3 Language varieties and standard language | 21 |
Chapter 4 Language spread and language variation | 32 |
nature and art | 42 |
Chapter 6 Orwell and language engineering | 55 |
a tribute to Jespersen | 63 |
Chapter 8 A case study of multiple meaning | 78 |
Chapter 12 Grammatical data by elicitation | 129 |
Chapter 13 A problem of modality | 140 |
Chapter 14 Acceptability experiments in spoken English | 145 |
Chapter 15 A tough object to trace | 157 |
Chapter 16 Activating latent contrasts | 161 |
Chapter 17 Contrasts in lexical semantics | 172 |
Chapter 18 Aspect and variant inflexion | 192 |
sex and a single verb | 207 |
Chapter 9 Nonfinite clauses in Chaucer | 93 |
Chapter 10 On having a look in a corpus | 113 |
Chapter 11 The Survey of English Usage and adverbial realisations | 120 |
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