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. |
Contenido
Language varieties and standard language | |
Language spread and language variation | |
nature and | |
Orwell and language engineering | |
The Survey of English Usage and adverbial realisations | |
Grammatical data by elicitation | |
A problem of modality | |
Acceptability experiments in spoken English | |
A tough object to trace | |
Activating latent contrasts | |
Contrasts in lexical semantics | |
Aspect and variant inflexion | |
a tribute to Jespersen | |
A case study of multiple meaning | |
Nonfinite clauses in Chaucer | |
On having a look in a corpus | |
sex and a single verb | |
References | |
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acrolectal adverbial American English aspectual basilect battery became become Bolinger British English Chapter Chicano English choice Chomsky complement concerned context contrast corpus countries course distinction durative econocultural elicitation English language environment especially evaluation example expression fact Figure finite clauses forced-choice genitive ginnen grammatical hesitation hypothesis implied Indian English indicate infinitive instances interest involved Jespersen John to look Kachru language less linguistic London meander meaning modality murderer native negative Newspeak Nigeria Nineteen eighty-five non-finite clauses non-finite verb non-native noun phrase object of-genitive operation Orwell pairs perhaps polarisation present preterit Prol pronoun prosodic reaction realised rejected relation reluctant replaced responses role s-genitive seems semantic Singapore smell South Asian English speakers Standard English stroll subjects suggest Table teachers teaching tendency tense test sentences to-infinitive types usage variation variety of English verb wander wh-movement words