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Norms and conventions in the history of English /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bös, Birte, 1974- (Editor ), Claridge, Claudia (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019]
Colección:Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 347.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Linguistic norms and conventions: past and present / Birte Bös and Claudia Claridge
  • Usage guides and the age of prescriptivism / Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
  • "Splendidly prejudiced": words for disapproval in English usage books / Don Chapman
  • Paradigm shifts in 19th-century British grammar writing: a network of texts and authors / Beatrix Busse, Kirsten Gather and Ingo Kleiber
  • Promotional conventions on English title pages up to 1550: modifiers of time, scope, and quality / Mari-liisa Varila and Matti Peikola
  • What can we learn from constructed speech errors? Mrs Malaprop revisited / Lucia Kornexl
  • The proverbial discourse tradition in the history of English: a usage-based view / Claudia lkert
  • Testing a stylometric tool in the study of Middle English documentary texts / Martti Mäkinen
  • Pragmatic and formulaic uses of shall and will in older Scots and early modern English official letter writing / Christine Elsweiler
  • Studying dialect spelling in its own right: suggestions from a case study / Gan Wolf.