New Zealand English grammar, fact or fiction? : a corpus-based study in morphosyntactic variation /
New Zealand English (NZE) is one of the younger post-colonial varieties of English. It is therefore not surprising that previous research focused on lexical and phonological aspects of NZE and practically neglected grammatical peculiarities. New Zealand English Grammar - Fact or Fiction? presents a...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©1998.
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Colección: | Varieties of English around the world. General series ;
v. 23. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | New Zealand English (NZE) is one of the younger post-colonial varieties of English. It is therefore not surprising that previous research focused on lexical and phonological aspects of NZE and practically neglected grammatical peculiarities. New Zealand English Grammar - Fact or Fiction? presents a careful comparative analysis of parallel corpora of New Zealand, British, American and Australian English in order to single out morphological, syntactic and lexico-grammatical features typical of an emerging New Zealand standard. In addition to corpus data on regional variation, the author uses dat. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 212 pages) : illustrations. |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-158) and index. |
ISBN: | 9789027275554 9027275556 |
ISSN: | 0172-7362 ; |