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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.

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Author:   Randolph Quirk
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138163553

ISBN 10:   1138163554
Pages:   230
Publication Date:   26 April 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Foreword 1. Variance in English: the global context 2. Variance and the concept of good usage 3. Language varieties and standard language 4. Language spread and language variation 5. Linguistic variance: nature and art 6. Orwell and language engineering 7. Exploring the English genitive: a tribute to Jespersen 8. A case study of multiple meaning 9. Non-finite clauses in Chaucer 10. On having a look in a corpus 11. The Survey of English Usage and adverbial realisations 12. Grammatical data by elicitation 13. A problem of modality 14. Acceptability experiments in spoken English 15. A tough object to trace 16. Activating latent contrasts 17. Contrasts in lexical semantics 18. Aspect and variant inflexion 19. Taking a deep smell: sex and a single verb References Index

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