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Twentieth-century English : history, variation, and standardization /
Documents changes to the vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation of Standard English over the past century.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2006.
©2006 |
| Colección: | Studies in English language.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgments; 1 Setting the scene; 2 Ongoing language change: problems of detection and verification; 3 Lexical change in twentieth-century English; 4 Grammatical changes in twentieth-century English; 5 Pronunciation; 6 Language change in context: changing communicative and discourse norms in twentieth-century English; Conclusion; Appendix 1 Brief survey of the corpora used for the present study; Appendix 2 The OED Baseline Corpora; Appendix 3 Estimating text size in the newspaper archives and the World Wide Web.