Grammatical and Lexical Variance in English

1. Auflage 1995
ISBN: 978-0-582-25358-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 298 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Quirk, Randolph

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Quirk, Randolph