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New-dialect formation in Canada : evidence from the English modal auxiliaries /
This book details the development of eleven modal auxiliaries in late 18th- and 19th-century Canadian English in a framework of new-dialect formation. The study assesses features of the modal auxiliaries, tracing influences to British and American input varieties, parallel developments, or Canadian...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub.,
©2008.
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| Colección: | Studies in language companion series ;
v. 97. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book details the development of eleven modal auxiliaries in late 18th- and 19th-century Canadian English in a framework of new-dialect formation. The study assesses features of the modal auxiliaries, tracing influences to British and American input varieties, parallel developments, or Canadian innovations. The findings are based on the Corpus of Early Ontario English, pre-Confederation Section, the first electronic corpus of early Canadian English. The data, which are drawn from newspapers, diaries and letters, include original transcriptions from manuscript sources and texts from semi-li. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxii, 355 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-349) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027285232 9027285233 1283092328 9781283092326 |
| ISSN: | 0165-7763 ; |