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1 online resource (xviii, 484 pages :) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 129
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Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 129.
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| Note |
Revised and updated versions of papers presented at a workshop of the 1997 ESSE conference in Debrecen, Hungary held September 5-9, 1997, and the HESCO conference in Tulln, held September 11-14, 1997. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
""Excellent in Shakespeare""; ""Address pronouns in Shakespeare�s English: a re-appraisal in terms of markedness""; ""Gender voices in the spoken interaction of the past: a pilot study based on Early Modern English trial proceedings""; ""Is there a social element in English word-stress? Explorations into a non-categorial treatment of English stress: a long-term view""; ""The modal verb shall between grammar and usage in the nineteenth century""; ""Social relations and forms of address in the Canterbury Tales"" |
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""Covert and overt language attitudes to the Scots tongue expressed in the Statistical accounts of Scotland""""The use of the negative prefix dis- 1520�1620""; ""On the conditioning of geographical and social distance in language variation and change in Renaissance Scots""; ""The influence of political correctness on lexical and grammatical change in late-twentieth-century English""; ""The changing role of London on the linguistic map of Tudor and Stuart England""; ""The rise and regulation of periphrastic do in negative declarative sentences: a sociolinguistic study"" |
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""Shibboleths galore: the treatment of Irish and Scottish English in histories of the English language""""Ethnolinguistic identity as common denominator: a socio-historical investigation of the lexical items for �people� in South African English""; ""Perceived and real differences between men�s and women�s spellings of the early to mid-seventeenth century""; ""Sociohistorical linguistics and the observer�s paradox""; ""Index of subjects""; ""Index of authors"" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English language -- Grammar, Historical -- Congresses.
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English language -- Grammar, Historical. |
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English language -- Social aspects -- Congresses.
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English language -- Social aspects. |
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English language -- History -- Congresses.
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English language. |
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History. |
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Kastovsky, Dieter, 1940-
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Mettinger, Arthur.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: History of English in a social context. Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2000 (DLC) 00048998 |
| ISBN |
9783110810301 (electronic book) |
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3110810301 (electronic book) |
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3110167077 (cloth alkaline paper) |
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9783110167078 |
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