Grammatical and Lexical Variance in English

AvRandolph Quirk

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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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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Utgivningsdatum:2017-04-26
Mått:138 x 216 x undefined mm
Vikt:453 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:230
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781138163553

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Foreword1. Variance in English: the global context2. Variance and the concept of good usage3. Language varieties and standard language4. Language spread and language variation5. Linguistic variance: nature and art6. Orwell and language engineering 7. Exploring the English genitive: a tribute to Jespersen8. A case study of multiple meaning9. Non-finite clauses in Chaucer10. On having a look in a corpus11. The Survey of English Usage and adverbial realisations12. Grammatical data by elicitation13. A problem of modality14. Acceptability experiments in spoken English15. A tough object to trace16. Activating latent contrasts17. Contrasts in lexical semantics18. Aspect and variant inflexion19. Taking a deep smell: sex and a single verbReferencesIndex