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Argument And Rhetoric - Adverbial Connectors In The History Of English

de Ursula Lenker

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 A corpus-based study giving a comprehensive overview of English items which have been used as adverbial connectors ('conjuncts', 'linking adverbials'), from Old English to Present-Day English. It analyses different characteristics of the make-up, functions and use of connectives, and also considers morphological and syntactic factors.
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Modality In English - Theory And Description

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 Presents corpus-based studies of a range of English modal auxiliaries and modal constructions in specific uses. This work approaches some of the classic issues in the field of modality from fresh perspectives, notably that of the 'Theory of Enunciative Operations' developed by the French linguist Antoine Culioli and his colleagues.
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Simplicity And Typological Effects In The Emergence Of New Englishes - The Noun Phrase In Singaporean And Kenyan English

de Thomas Brunner

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 The book is based on a detailed corpus-based investigation of the structure of noun phrases (NPs) in Singaporean English and Kenyan English with the aim of detecting, on the one hand, typological effects from substrate languages and, on the other hand, simplification patterns known to play a role in such varieties.
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Getting At Get In World Englishes - A Corpus-Based Semasiological-Syntactic Analysis

de Elisabeth Bruckmaier

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 Despite its exceptional frequency, GET has so far gone largely unnoticed in linguistic analysis. It not only offers a comprehensive semasiological-syntactic analysis of this extremely versatile verb, but also contributes to the understanding of factors that are at work in variation in World Englishes.
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English In Computer-Mediated Communication - Variation, Representation, And Change

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 This book addresses the nature of English use within contexts of computer-mediated communication (CMC). The volume therefore examines the English language in particular in CMC â€" what it looks like, what it accomplishes, and what it means to speakers.
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Perspectives On Northern Englishes

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 The present volume about Northern Englishes includes studies not only on phonology but also on semantics, syntax and sociolinguistics from a synchronic and diachronic point of view, with a special emphasis on the process of enregisterment.
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Studies In The History Of The English Language Vi - Evidence And Method In Histories Of English

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 The relationships among data, evidence, and methodology in English historical linguistics are perennially vexed. This volume challenges a wide variety of assumptions and practices and illustrates how diverse methods and approaches construct evidence for historical linguistic arguments from an increasingly large and diverse body of linguistic data.
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Variational Text Linguistics - Revisiting Register In English

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 Deals with the field of 'variational text linguistics'. This book focuses on both functional and regional types of textual variation that provides new insights into the concept of 'register'. It is a forum for the description and discussion of registers which have not received enough linguistic attention so far.
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Universal Or Diverse Paths To English Phonology

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 Deals with the acquisition of English phonology, both segmental and supra segmental, by learners of English as a second language, as a third language and by speakers of a post colonial variety of English. This book focuses on the acquisition process and factors influencing it, based on insights from all three disciplines.
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Changing English - Global And Local Perspectives

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 Although it is widely recognised that processes of language change and contact bear affinities to processes observable in second-language acquisition and lingua franca use, the research into these fields has so far not been sufficiently brought into
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Salience In Sociolinguistics - A Quantitative Approach

de Péter Rácz

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 This work proposes a definition of the notion of salience in sociolinguistics. Salient linguistic variants are those that are easily picked up by the listeners, and these stand in opposition to `invisible' variants, which are, even if they also show complex social stratification, completely ignored.
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Extra-Grammatical Morphology In English - Abbreviations, Blends, Reduplicatives, And Related Phenomena

de Elisa Mattiello

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 Extra-grammatical morphology is a hitherto neglected area of research, highly marginalised because of its irregularity and unpredictability. Yet many neologisms in English are formed by means of extra-grammatical mechanisms, such as abbreviation, blending and reduplication, which therefore deserve both greater attention and more systematic study.
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Entrenchment In Usage-Based Theories - What Corpus Data Do And Do Not Reveal About The Mind

de Alice Blumenthal-Dramé

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 This book explores the usage-based claim that high usage frequency leads to the entrenchment of complex words in the minds of language users.
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English Modality - Core, Periphery And Evidentiality

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 Presents new issues and areas of work in Modality and Evidentiality in English(es), and in relation to other languages.
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Areal Features Of The Anglophone World

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 The present volume seeks to unite the research of a range of scholars working on features of non-standard, vernacular English which show an areal distribution, i.e. The volume is concerned with dialect input, innovations among varieties of English andthe areal diffusion of features among varieties.
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The English It-Cleft - A Constructional Account And A Diachronic Investigation

de Amanda Patten

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 The English it-Cleft
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Ditransitives In British English Dialects

de Johanna Gerwin

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 What determines whether we say She gave him a book instead of She gave a book to him? The author views this `dative alternationâ€™ as a sociolinguistic variable and explores its distribution across different British English dialects, registers and time frames.
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The Variability Of Current World Englishes

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 This book explores through fresh detail and approaches unanticipated, heterogeneous dispersions of the English language world-wide. Through data collection, comparative analysis, and typological study, the book's chapters capture patterns that now affect established dialects and shape those recently emerging.
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Speech And Thought Representation In English - A Cognitive-Functional Approach

de Lieven Vandelanotte

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 Apart from direct and indirect speech/thought, the types described include the character-oriented free indirect and the narrator-oriented distancing indirect type, and two subjectified types in which reporting clauses such as I think function as hedges.
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Subjectification, Intersubjectification And Grammaticalization

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 Examines the relation between (inter-)subjectification and grammaticalization. This title aims to delineate the domain of (inter-)subjectivity - the encoding of speaker and hearer-orientation - in the language system, and to elaborate a grammar-based definition of the diachronic counterparts subjectification and intersubjectification.
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Studies In The History Of The English Language Iv - Empirical And Analytical Advances In The Study Of English Language Change

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 A collection of studies that approach different questions in the history of the English language using a range of evidence for change across different periods, genres, and aspects of the language. It covers a range of periods of the English language, from Old English to 19th-century Canadian English and present-day Pennsylvania English.
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English Adjectives Of Comparison - Lexical And Grammaticalized Uses

de Tine Breban

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 The book is concerned with a largely unrecognized grammaticalization process: deictification, or the development from quality-attributing to deictically used adjectives in the English noun phrase.
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The Reign Of Truth And Faith - Epistemic Expressions In 16th And 17th Century English

de Helen Bromhead

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 Using the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach, evidence from texts and collocations, and adducing cultural evidence, this work argues for the existence of a distinct epistemic ethos in 16th and 17th century ways of thinking and speaking, an ethos of truth, faith and certainty.
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Rethinking The Coordinate-Subordinate Dichotomy - Interpersonal Grammar And The Analysis Of Adverbial Clauses In English

de Jean-Christophe Verstraete

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 This study argues that the domain traditionally covered by `coordinationâ€™ and `subordinationâ€™ in English can be neatly subdivided into four distinct construction types which differ in the grammatical encoding of speaker-attitude and speaker-interlocutor interaction.
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