Hakutulokset: Sarja studies in english language
yhteensä 103 hakutulosta
Standardising English Spelling
The standardisation of English spelling that resulted from the advent of printing is one of the most fascinating aspects of the history of English. This pioneering book explores …
Conversation in World Englishes
Turn-taking is a fascinating feature of conversational interaction, due to its systematic and ordered nature. However, research has so far focused mainly on American and British …
Quoting Speech in Early English
Before quotation marks became widespread convention, English texts were organized more fluidly, employing varying lexical and textual strategies for marking represented discourse. …
The English Language in Canada
The English Language in Canada examines the current status, history and principal features of Canadian English, focusing on the 'standard' variety heard across the country today. …
The English Language in Canada
The English Language in Canada examines the current status, history and principal features of Canadian English, focusing on the 'standard' variety heard across the country today. …
From Old English to Standard English
This practical course book explores the development of the language from Old English to the establishment of Standard English. This third edition has been expanded to provide …
Interactions across Englishes
English is a language at the centre of research into language contact, because its global spread has resulted in contact with an enormous variety of different languages worldwide, …
Analysing Older English
Is historical linguistics different in principle from other linguistic research? This book addresses problems encountered in gathering and analysing data from early English, …
English in Multilingual South Africa
South Africa is a country characterised by great linguistic diversity. Large indigenous languages, such as isiZulu and isiXhosa, are spoken by many millions of people, as well as …
Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax
A pioneering collection of new research that explores categories, constructions, and change in the syntax of the English language. The volume, with contributions by world-renowned …
The Verb Phrase in English
The chapters in this volume feature new and groundbreaking research carried out by leading scholars and promising young researchers from around the world on recent changes in the …
Gender Shifts in the History of English
How and why did grammatical gender, found in Old English and in other Germanic languages, gradually disappear from English and get replaced by a system where the gender of nouns …