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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"Throughout, it is written clearly and engagingly."
Linguistics (Mouton de Gruyter)
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Höhe: 216 mm
Breite: 140 mm
Dicke: 13 mm
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978-0-582-25358-2 (9780582253582)
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Foreword
1. Variance in English: the global context
2. Variance and the concept of good usage
3. Language varieties and standard language
4. Language spread and language variation
5. Linguistic variance: nature and art
6. Orwell and language engineering
7. Exploring the English genitive: a tribute to Jespersen
8. A case study of multiple meaning
9. Non-finite clauses in Chaucer
10. On having a look in a corpus
11. The Survey of English Usage and adverbial realisations
12. Grammatical data by elicitation
13. A problem of modality
14. Acceptability experiments in spoken English
15. A tough object to trace
16. Activating latent contrasts
17. Contrasts in lexical semantics
18. Aspect and variant inflexion
19. Taking a deep smell: sex and a single verb
References
Index
