Grammatical and Lexical Variance in EnglishLongman, 1995 - 220 páginas This volume addresses the two extremes of grammatical and lexical variance. One is at the societal end of linguistic experience and the other concerns the more technical matter of the detailed specific and individual realisations of variation. |
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... acceptable by expansions such as : Having the new baby becomes Mrs Jones Having the new mayor becomes our town where the subjects of bc 2 are not of course human nouns but abstracts , of clausal form , the human nouns functioning as ...
... acceptable by expansions such as : Having the new baby becomes Mrs Jones Having the new mayor becomes our town where the subjects of bc 2 are not of course human nouns but abstracts , of clausal form , the human nouns functioning as ...
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... acceptable ( 1642 : OED ) History did not allow this distinction between bc 2 and the other senses of become to survive , in contrast to that between flower and flour , which was incomplete as late as the eighteenth century , being ...
... acceptable ( 1642 : OED ) History did not allow this distinction between bc 2 and the other senses of become to survive , in contrast to that between flower and flour , which was incomplete as late as the eighteenth century , being ...
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... acceptable , ( b ) is more colloquial in tone : ( a ) On the following day , ( b ) The following day , -he left for America . Less expected is the slightly higher than random proportion of finite- clause adverbials in speech : 1.25 to 1 ...
... acceptable , ( b ) is more colloquial in tone : ( a ) On the following day , ( b ) The following day , -he left for America . Less expected is the slightly higher than random proportion of finite- clause adverbials in speech : 1.25 to 1 ...
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the global context | 1 |
Variance and the concept of good usage | 10 |
Language varieties and standard language | 21 |
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