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1 online resource (xix, 559 pages). |
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Topics in English linguistics ; 31
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Topics in English linguistics ; 31.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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""1. Structure""; ""1.1. Continuity versus discontinuity""; ""Obsolescence and sudden death in syntax: The decline of verb-final order in early Middle English""; ""On the history of relative that""; ""The complementation of verbs of appearance by adverbs""; ""On the use of current intuition as a bias in historical linguistics: The case of the LOOK + -ly construction in English""; ""The indefinite pronoun man: “nominal“ or “pronominal�?""; ""1.2. Form and function""; ""Coordinate deletion, directionality and underlying structure in Old English"" |
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""The position of the adjective in Old English""""On the history of the s-genitive""; ""The passive as an object foregrounding device in early Modern English""; ""Reinforcing adjectives: A cognitive semantic perspective on grammaticalisation""; ""2. Text types""; ""Variation and change: Text types and the modelling of syntactic change""; ""The progressive form and genre variation during the nineteenth century""; ""The conjunction and in early Modern English: Frequencies and uses in speech-related writing and other texts""; ""3. Sociolinguistics and dialectology"" |
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""Processes of supralocalisation and the rise of Standard English in the early Modern period""""The rise and fall of periphrastic DO in early Modern English, or “Howe the Scots will declare themselv �s�""; ""Grammatical description and language use in the seventeenth century""; ""Geographical, socio-spatial and systemic distance in the spread of the relative who in Scots""; ""Inversion in embedded questions in some regional varieties of English""; ""Putting words in their place: An approach to Middle English word geography""; ""4. Phonology""; ""HappY-tensing: A recent innovation?"" |
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""Syllable ONSET in the history of English""""Name index""; ""Subject index"" |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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English language -- Grammar, Generative.
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English language -- Grammar, Generative. |
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English language -- Discourse analysis.
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English language -- Discourse analysis. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Bermúdez-Otero, Ricardo, 1970-
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Print version: Generative theory and corpus studies. Berlin ; New York, NY : Mouton de Gruyter, 2000 3110166879 (DLC) 00030389 (OCoLC)43913124 |
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9783110814699 (electronic book) |
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3110814692 (electronic book) |
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3110166879 |
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9783110166873 |
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