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9780582253582

Grammatical and Lexical Variance in English

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  • ISBN13:

    9780582253582

  • ISBN10:

    0582253586

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 1995-05-10
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

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.

Author Biography

Randolph Quirk (Professor the Lord Quirk, FBA) is currently Research Fellow at University College London and formerly President of the British Academy.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Variance in English: the global context
Variance and the concept of good usage
Language varieties and standard language
Language spread and language variation
Linguistic variance: nature and art
Orwell and language engineering
Exploring the English genitive: a tribute to Jespersen
A case study of multiple meaning
Non-finite clauses in Chaucer
On having a look in a corpus
The Survey of English Usage and adverbial realisations
Grammatical data by elicitation
A problem of modality
Acceptability experiments in spoken English
A tough object to trace
Activating latent contrasts
Contrasts in lexical semantics
Aspect and variant inflexion
Taking a deep smell: sex and a single verb
References
Index
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