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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hundt, Marianne
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., ©1998.
Colección:Varieties of English around the world. General series ; v. 23.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiv, 212 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-158) and index.
ISBN:9789027275554
9027275556
ISSN:0172-7362 ;