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Late modern English syntax /
"The Late Modern period is the first in the history of English for which an unprecedented wealth of textual material exists. Using increasingly sophisticated databases, the contributions in this volume explore grammatical usage from the period, specifically morphological and syntactic change, i...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Studies in English language.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "The Late Modern period is the first in the history of English for which an unprecedented wealth of textual material exists. Using increasingly sophisticated databases, the contributions in this volume explore grammatical usage from the period, specifically morphological and syntactic change, in a broad context. Some chapters explore the socio-historical background of the period while others provide information on prescriptivism, newspaper language, language contact, and regional variation in British and American English. Internal processes of change are discussed against grammaticalisation theory and construction grammar and the rich body of textual evidence is used to draw inferences on the precise nature of historical change. Exposing readers to a wealth of data that informs the description of a broad range of syntactic phenomena, this book is ideal for graduate students and researchers interested in historical linguistics, corpus linguistics and language development"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxi, 385 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781316008447 1316008444 9781316003947 1316003949 9781139990097 1139990098 9781316006207 1316006204 9781139507226 1139507222 1316010708 9781316010709 1139985477 9781139985475 1108403875 9781108403870 1316012948 9781316012949 1316001709 9781316001707 |