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  • - Standard English and the Dialects
    av Dennis Freeborn
    637,-

    A revised and expanded edition which has additional chapters and material. A new opening chapter discusses the concept of "grammatically correct English" and various approaches to the writing of grammar books. The book itself describes Standard English and has authentic written and spoken examples.

  • - An Introduction to the Study of Language
    av David Langford & Peter French
    651,-

    This new edition of the best selling, topic-based introduction to spoken and written English, is now fully revised and expanded with over 50% more material. This practical volume provides a wide range of written texts and transcriptions of speech for commentary and analysis.

  • - Investigating Verbal Interaction in English
    av David Langford
    637,-

    The book offers a step-by-step approach to the task of describing what is systematic in conversational behaviour. The book is organised as a series of practical exercises, teaching skills such as transcribing verbal interaction and identifying and describing 'special events'.

  • - Fixed and Flexible
     
    547,-

    This book is aimed at linguists and students interested in the history of English, especially from a genre-oriented perspective, and literary scholars interested in style and poetic language. It places binomials - word pairs - in the context of phonology, stylistics, semantics, translation theory and practice in various periods.

  • av Dr Eva (Universitat Hamburg) Berlage
    463 - 858,-

    What makes the noun phrase 'the man I saw' more complex than 'the man'? Designed for researchers and students interested in questions of language complexity, this book aims to answer that question by exploring variation in more than three billion words of British and American data.

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    1 645,-

    A collection of new case studies by world-renowned and emerging scholars in the field, which explores English syntactic structure, variation, and change, both past and present, methodologically and theoretically. It is ideal reading for scholars and advanced students in English syntax, historical linguistics, linguistic theory and corpus linguistics.

  • - A Course Book in Language Variations Across Time
    av Dennis Freeborn
    651,-

    This practical course book explores the development of the language from Old English to the establishment of Standard English. This third edition has been expanded to provide further background information, with a supplementary website and new sections to outline the development of writing hands and provide a brief introduction to palaeography.

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    1 482,-

    Based on authentic English-language material, and backed by the latest statistical methods, this book explores the impact of gender on linguistic choices in English-speaking countries worldwide, considering local social realities. It is essential reading for researchers and advanced students with an interest in language, gender and World Englishes.

  • - Developments in Allomorphy, Word Formation, and Syntax
    av Switzerland) Hilpert & Martin (Universite de Neuchatel
    503 - 1 482,-

    Is construction grammar a useful framework for the study of language change? Hilpert combines the current linguistic theory of construction grammar with advanced corpus-based methodology in order to study language change in a new way. This new perspective has wide-ranging consequences for the way historical linguists think about language change.

  • - Spoken Interaction as Writing
    av Jonathan Culpeper & Merja Kyto
    621 - 1 327,-

    Using the Corpus of English Dialogues 1560-1760, in this book Culpeper and Kytoe offer a unique account of the linguistic features in speech-related genres of writing. Through this, they are able to provide a fascinating insight into what spoken interaction in Early Modern English might have been like.

  • - Language and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
    av Haruko (New York University) Momma
    504 - 1 058,-

    An examination of the influence of nineteenth-century philology on European thought. Haruko Momma considers, among other matters, the impact of William Jones's discovery of Sanskrit on historical studies of language and culture, the Philological Society's role in the making of the OED, and the rise of English studies at universities.

  • - Construals, Constructions and Canonicity
    av M. Lynne Murphy, Steven Jones, Carita Paradis & m.fl.
    465 - 1 491,-

    The study of antonyms (or 'opposites') in a language can provide important insight into word meaning and discourse structures. This book provides an extensive investigation of antonyms in English and offers an innovative model of how we mentally organize concepts and how we perceive contrasts between them. The authors use corpus and experimental methods to build a theoretical picture of the antonym relation, its status in the mind and its construal in context. Evidence is drawn from natural antonym use in speech and writing, first-language antonym acquisition, and controlled elicitation and judgements of antonym pairs by native speakers. The book also proposes ways in which a greater knowledge of how antonyms work can be applied to the fields of language technology and lexicography.

  • - Differences between British and American English
     
    625,-

    This volume focuses on British-American differences in the structure of words and sentences. The first full-length treatment of the topic, it will be of interest to scholars working within the fields of English historical linguistics, language variation and change, and dialectology.

  • - Studies in Transported Dialects
     
    804,-

    As a result of colonisation, many varieties of English now exist around the world. This 2005 book explores the role of British dialects in both the genesis and subsequent history of postcolonial Englishes, and how it came about that many still reflect non-standard British usage from the distant past.

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    1 151,-

    Provides a new perspective on the evolution of the language of medicine, based on a large electronic corpus of medical texts. It is useful for researchers and students within several fields, including the development of special languages, genre and register analysis, corpus linguistics, historical pragmatics, and medical and cultural history.

  • - A Corpus-based Study of Exaggeration
    av Claudia (Universitat Duisburg-Essen) Claridge
    503 - 1 063,-

    The first investigation of hyperbole in English, drawing on genres such as spoken language, TV, newspapers, and literary works. Using approaches from semantics, pragmatics, discourse analysis and classical rhetoric, it explores both speaker- and addressee-related aspects of hyperbole, and shows it to be an important contributor to language change.

  • - A Usage-based Approach
    av Universitat Osnabruck) Hoffmann & Thomas (Professor Dr
    465 - 864,-

    Preposition placement refers to the competition between preposition stranding (What is he talking about?) and pied-piping (About what is he talking?). This volume provides a full grammatical account of preposition placement in English, and will be of interest to syntacticans, second-language researchers, and those working on variation in English.

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    924,-

    The first volume to focus on the communicative aspects of English manuscripts from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century. It demonstrates how these handwritten texts can be used to analyse the history of language as communication between individuals and groups, and discusses the challenges these documents present to present-day scholars.

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    466,-

    This 2003 volume, written by a team of experts, many of them internationally known, provides a broad overview of the foundations of and research on language variation in the southern United States. Central themes, issues and topics of scholarly investigation and debate figure prominently throughout the volume.

  • - Status, History and Comparative Analysis
    av McGill University, Montreal) Boberg & Charles (Associate Professor of Linguistics
    465 - 998,-

    An examination of the current status, history and principal features of Canadian English. The book includes a discussion of the number and distribution of speakers of Canadian English, a review of its history and a comparison of its vocabulary, pronunciation and grammar to standard British and American English.

  • - A Study of Syntax in Discourse
    av Christian Mair
    465,-

    This study, the first in the series Studies in English Language, is concerned with the functional and communicative foundations of English grammar, and takes as its specific focus the study of infinitival complement clauses. This book will appeal to scholars and postgraduate students in the fields of English language and general linguistics.

  • - An Introduction
     
    551,-

    This book documents the linguistic properties of lesser-known varieties of English from the Pacific, South America and the South Atlantic to West Africa and the Caribbean, exploring their social histories and showing their relevance for language spread and change.

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    1 491,-

    This 2003 volume, written by a team of experts, many of them internationally known, provides a broad overview of the foundations of and research on language variation in the southern United States. Central themes, issues and topics of scholarly investigation and debate figure prominently throughout the volume.

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    1 491,-

    The late Middle Ages in England saw a flowering of scientific writing in the vernacular, taking English discourse in new directions and establishing new textual genres. This 2004 book examines the sociolinguistic causes and effects of that process, and offers insights into vernacularisation for linguists and historians of science alike.

  • - Ideology and Change
     
    1 195,-

    The eighteenth century was a key period in the development of the English language, in which the modern standard emerged and many dictionaries and grammars first appeared. The novel insights offered in this book extend our knowledge of the English language at the onset of the modern period.

  • - Differences between British and American English
     
    1 237,-

    This volume focuses on British-American differences in the structure of words and sentences. The first full-length treatment of the topic, it will be of interest to scholars working within the fields of English historical linguistics, language variation and change, and dialectology.

  • av Ann Arbor) Curzan & Anne (University of Michigan
    481 - 1 491,-

    How did grammatical gender in English get replaced by a system dependent on natural gender? How is this related to 'irregular agreement' (she for ships) and 'sexist' language use (generic he) in Modern English? This study, based on extensive corpus data, offers an important historical perspective on these controversial questions.

  • - Stability and Change
     
    465,-

    This volume examines English during the nineteenth century, a period of both stability and change for the language. Considering both structural aspects and sociolinguistics issues, it compares nineteenth-century English with both earlier and later periods, making an important contribution to our overall understanding of the history of the English language.

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    551,-

    The late Middle Ages in England saw a flowering of scientific writing in the vernacular, taking English discourse in new directions and establishing new textual genres. This 2004 book examines the sociolinguistic causes and effects of that process, and offers insights into vernacularisation for linguists and historians of science alike.

  • av Boston) Meyer & Charles F. (University of Massachusetts
    466 - 1 491,-

    Apposition in Contemporary English is a detailed discussion of the linguistic relation apposition and its usage in various kinds of speech and writing.

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