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Studies in the history of the English language V : variation and change in English grammar and lexicon : contemporary approaches /
Twelve articles about contemporary approaches to variation and change in historical English grammar and lexicon, with commentaries and responses by the authors, show the main issues and discussion in the field as traditional methods meet contemporary linguistics.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
De Gruyter Mouton,
2010.
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| Colección: | Topics in English linguistics ;
68. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter; Table of Contents; Introduction; Dialogic Contexts as Motivations for Syntactic Change; Whatever Happened to English Sluicing; Notion of Direction and Old English Prepositional Phrases; Survival of the Strongest: Strong Verb Inflection from Old to Modern English; Subject Compounding and a Functional Change of the Derivational Suffix -ing in the History of English; Bad Ideas in the History of English Usage; The State of English Etymology (A Few Personal Observations); From Germanic 'fence' to 'urban settlement': On the Semantic Development of English town.