The Pragmatics of Quoting Now and Then

• Hardcover | Engels | Topics in English Linguistics | nr. 89
• In examining the phenomenon of quoting from multiple angles, The Pragmatics of Quoting Now and Then offers a fresh view on the forms, functions and us... Lees meer

The Historical Evolution of Earlier African American English

Alexander Kautzsch

• Hardcover | Engels | Topics in English Linguistics | nr. 38
• Based on a 500,000 word corpus of early sources collected from ex-slave narratives, ex-slave recordings, and interviews with hoodoo priests, this book... Lees meer

Verb Valency Patterns

Susen Faulhaber

• Hardcover | Engels | Topics in English Linguistics | nr. 71
• Taking as its point of departure the general assumption that meaning is crucial in accounting for verb complementation, this volume presents the resul... Lees meer

Simplicity and Typological Effects in the Emergence of New Englishes

Thomas Brunner

• Hardcover | Engels | Topics in English Linguistics | nr. 97
• 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 a... Lees meer

Changing English

• Paperback | Engels | Topics in English Linguistics | nr. 92
• This book examines the special nature of English both as a global and a local language, focusing on some of the ongoing changes and on the emerging ne... Lees meer

Models of Modals

Ilse Depraetere, Bert Cappelle, Hilpert, Ludovic de Cuypere, Mathieu Dehouck, Pascal Denis, Susanne Flach, Natalia Grabar, Cyril Grandin, Thierry Hamon, Clemens Hufeld, Benoît LeClercq, Hans-Jörg Schmid

• Paperback | Engels | Topics in English Linguistics | nr. 110
• Modal verbs in English communicate delicate shades of meaning, there being a large range of verbs both on the necessity side ( must , have to , should... Lees meer

English Abstract Nouns as Conceptual Shells

Hans-Jörg Schmid

• Hardcover | Engels | Topics in English Linguistics | nr. 34
• No detailed description available for "English Abstract Nouns as Conceptual Shells". Lees meer

The Pragmatics of Discourse Anaphora in English

Ronald Geluykens

• Hardcover | Engels | Topics in English Linguistics | nr. 14
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Methods in Historical Pragmatics

• Hardcover | Engels | Topics in English Linguistics | nr. 52
• This volume represents a timely collective review and assessment of what it is we do when we do English historical pragmatics or historical discourse ... Lees meer

Studies in the History of the English Language VII

• Hardcover | Engels | Topics in English Linguistics | nr. 94
• This book looks at how historical linguists accommodate the written records used for evidence. The limitations of the written record restrict our view... Lees meer

Vowel-Shifting in the English Language

Kamil Kaźmierski

• Hardcover | Engels | Topics in English Linguistics | nr. 88
• English has long been suspected to be a vowel-shifting language. This hypothesis, often only adumbrated in previous work, is closely investigated in t... Lees meer

Mastering English

Carl Bache, Niels Davidsen-Nielsen

• Hardcover | Engels | Topics in English Linguistics | nr. 22
• No detailed description available for "Mastering English". Lees meer

Duration in English

Lia Korrel

• Hardcover | Engels | Topics in English Linguistics | nr. 5
• No detailed description available for "Duration in English". Lees meer

Cardinal Numerals

Ferdinand Von Mengden

• Hardcover | Engels | Topics in English Linguistics | nr. 67
• The book embeds a description and an analysis of the Old English numeral system into a broader, cross-linguistic discussion. It provides a theoretical... Lees meer

Rhythmic Grammar

Julia Schlüter

• Hardcover | Engels | Topics in English Linguistics | nr. 46
• This groundbreaking book highlights a phonological preference, the Principle of Rhythmic Alternation, as a factor in grammatical variation and change ... Lees meer

English Computer Corpora

• Hardcover | Engels | Topics in English Linguistics | nr. 3
• No detailed description available for "English Computer Corpora". Lees meer

Linguistic Communities and Migratory Processes

Karen P Corrigan

• Paperback | Engels | Topics in English Linguistics | nr. 106
• This inter-disciplinary book is the first in an Irish context to address issues connected with the 'super-diversifying' of language and society engend... Lees meer

The Perfect and the Preterite in Contemporary and Earlier English

Johan Elsness

• Hardcover | Engels | Topics in English Linguistics | nr. 21
• No detailed description available for "The Perfect and the Preterite in Contemporary and Earlier English". Lees meer

Preposition Stranding

Ken-Ichi Takami

• Hardcover | Engels | Topics in English Linguistics | nr. 7
• No detailed description available for "Preposition Stranding". Lees meer

The Multilingual Origins of Standard English

• Paperback | Engels | Topics in English Linguistics | nr. 107
• Textbooks inform readers that the precursor of Standard English was supposedly an East or Central Midlands variety which became adopted in London; tha... Lees meer

Patterns in Language and Linguistics

• Paperback | Engels | Topics in English Linguistics | nr. 104
• Despite its importance for language and cognition, the theoretical concept of »pattern« has received little attention in linguistics so far. The artic... Lees meer

Extra-grammatical Morphology in English

Elisa Mattiello

• Hardcover | Engels | Topics in English Linguistics | nr. 82
• Extra-grammatical morphology is a hitherto neglected area of research, highly marginalised because of its irregularity and unpredictability. Yet many ... Lees meer

The Variability of Current World Englishes

• Hardcover | Engels | Topics in English Linguistics | nr. 87
• Faces of English explores the phenomenon of increasing dialects, varieties, and creoles, even as the spread of globalization supports an apparently gr... Lees meer

English in Computer-Mediated Communication

• Hardcover | Engels | Topics in English Linguistics | nr. 93
• This book addresses the nature of English use within contexts of computer-mediated communication (CMC). CMC includes technologies through which not on... Lees meer