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Variation and change in the lexicon : a corpus-based analysis of adjectives in English ending in -ic and -ical /
"This book is a corpus-based study of the occurrence, variation, and change in the use of English adjective pairs in -ic and -ical over several centuries."--Jacket
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Rodopi,
2007.
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| Colección: | Language and computers ;
no 63. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Materials used in the study
- Earlier observations and empirical studies
- The history of new adjectives ending in -ic and -ical
- Excellence, tradition, and ancient Greeks : classic/classical
- Perspectives on amusement : the use of comic/comical
- Arranging the motions of resources : economic/economical
- Shocks, sparks and excitement vs. engineering : electric/electrical
- The past and the important things in it : historic/historical
- From supernatural powers to exciting football games : magic/magical
- Obsolescence of one of the forms
- Some special cases
- Concluding remarks.