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World Englishes in the 21st Century
Twenty years after Edgar W. Schneider’s publication of the Dynamic Model, the field of World Englishes is as vibrant as ever. The further spread and entrenchment of English around …
Saggi in onore di Piergiuseppe Scardigli
Il presente volume contiene una raccolta di saggi dedicati alla figura e all’opera di Piergiuseppe Scardigli (Altopascio 1933 - Firenze 2008), insigne docente di filologia …
Language Variation and Change in the American Midland
This volume explores the linguistic complexities and critical issues of the Midland dialect area of the USA, and contains a unique data-based set of investigations of the Midlands …
Dialect and Migration in a Changing Europe
In the course of a general process of social modernization throughout Europe since the early modern period, a communicative modernization has also taken place. In this context, …
Infinitival complement constructions in Early New High German
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Degrees of Restructuring in Creole Languages
Basic notions in the field of creole studies, including the category of “creole languages” itself, have been questioned in recent years: Can creoles be defined on structural or on …
The Genesis of Discourse Grammar
Hirokuni Masuda applies the modified Verse Analysis to the study of creole languages seeking evidence to support the two principal theories: universalist and substratist. Hawaii …
Dynamics of a Contact Continuum
Singaporean English is an indigenized variety of the language which has developed chiefly through English-medium education. The authors of this book investigate the various factors …
The Structure of Chaucer’s Ambiguity
This book focuses on ambiguity in Troilus and Criseyde, one of Geoffrey Chaucer’s (1343?-1400) representative works. It examines systematically how and why ambiguity is likely to …
Folk Linguistics
"Folk knowledge of language has not engaged linguists very often in the history of that field. Introductory texts often disparage folkbelief in contrast to 'scientific truth'. In …
Studies in Caribbean Spanish Dialectology
The editors and fourteen other research linguists discuss - in English and in Spanish - the African influence on Caribbean phonology, dominant sociolinguistic attitudes in Puerto …
Negation in the History of English
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