The papers in this volume celebrate the work of Angus McIntosh, who specialized in dialects of Later Middle English, and wrote on other topics in English linguistics as well. Of the papers in this volume most deal with English and a few with other subjects in (historical) dialec…
An American expatriate living in London explores the historical and cultural differences between American and British versions of English, covering snacking habits, overall collective personalities, dating and sex, drinking and raising kids. --Publisher's description.
How and why do language changes begin; how and why do they spread; and how can they ultimately be explained? This new textbook sets out to answer these questions in a clear and helpful way which will be accessible to all students with an elementary knowledge of linguistics. In t…
This textbook analyses changes from every area of grammar and addresses recent developments in socio-historical linguistics.
Part sociolinguistic, part ethnographic, this book takes up the neglected question of how ethnic division interacts with variation and change in Northern Irish English. It identifies an idealised folk model of harmonious communities, in spite of the social divide and open confli…
Re-assessing the present perfect: [35th ICAME conference, "Corpus linguistics, cont…
by University of Nottingham, Seoane, Elena, Werner, Valentin, Suárez Gómez, Cristina, International computer archive of Modern and Medieval English, Nottingham, Royaume-Uni)
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