Written by one of Britain's most distinguished linguists, this book is concerned with the phenomenon of variance in English grammar and vocabulary across regional, social, stylistic and temporal space.
Written by one of Britain's most distinguished linguists, this book is concerned with the phenomenon of variance in English grammar and vocabulary across regional, social, stylistic and temporal space.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Foreword 1. Variance in English: the global context 2. Variance and the concept of good usage 3. Language varieties and standard language 4. Language spread and language variation 5. Linguistic variance: nature and art 6. Orwell and language engineering 7. Exploring the English genitive: a tribute to Jespersen 8. A case study of multiple meaning 9. Non-finite clauses in Chaucer 10. On having a look in a corpus 11. The Survey of English Usage and adverbial realisations 12. Grammatical data by elicitation 13. A problem of modality 14. Acceptability experiments in spoken English 15. A tough object to trace 16. Activating latent contrasts 17. Contrasts in lexical semantics 18. Aspect and variant inflexion 19. Taking a deep smell: sex and a single verb References Index
Foreword 1. Variance in English: the global context 2. Variance and the concept of good usage 3. Language varieties and standard language 4. Language spread and language variation 5. Linguistic variance: nature and art 6. Orwell and language engineering 7. Exploring the English genitive: a tribute to Jespersen 8. A case study of multiple meaning 9. Non-finite clauses in Chaucer 10. On having a look in a corpus 11. The Survey of English Usage and adverbial realisations 12. Grammatical data by elicitation 13. A problem of modality 14. Acceptability experiments in spoken English 15. A tough object to trace 16. Activating latent contrasts 17. Contrasts in lexical semantics 18. Aspect and variant inflexion 19. Taking a deep smell: sex and a single verb References Index
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