Descriptive Adequacy of Early Modern English Grammars
EAN: 9783110181937
Syntax and Semantics of the Left Periphery
EAN: 9783110181210
Studies in the History of the English Language II
Scholars from North America and Europe address a broad spectrum of research topics in historical...
EAN: 9783110180978
English Inversion
Here, Rong Chen provides an account of English inversion, a construction that displays perplexing...
EAN: 9783110178104
Cognitive-Functional Approach to Nominalization in English
The main objective of the book is to present a systematic account of the constructional...
EAN: 9783110178098
Bantawa Dictionary
Bantawa, spoken in Eastern Nepal, is the most widely used of the Rai languages, an important...
EAN: 9783110177107
Modality in Contemporary English
This book offers original theoretical accounts and a wealth of descriptive information concerning...
EAN: 9783110176865
Refractions of Germany in Canadian Literature and Culture
This volume presents a series of in-depth studies of particular authors or specific aspects of...
EAN: 9783110176667
Generative Approaches to the Acquisition of English by Native Speakers of Japanese
This book is a collection of eight articles by leading scholars investigating of the acquisition...
EAN: 9783110176599
Text Types and the History of English
The book comprises methodological reflexions on form, content and function in a comprehensive...
EAN: 9783110173727
Genitive Variation in English
This monograph is an empirical study of a particular type of grammatical variation - genitive...
EAN: 9783110173703
Historical Evolution of Earlier African American English
Based on a 500,000 word corpus of early sources collected from ex-slave narratives, ex-slave...
EAN: 9783110173017
Verb-Particle Explorations
The contributions in this book are a representative cross-section of recent research on...
EAN: 9783110172287
Language Change
This volume focuses on the interface of different motivating factors that contribute to language...
EAN: 9783110172027
Race and the Rise of Standard American
This study examines the effect of race-consciousness upon the pronunciation of American English...
EAN: 9783110171891
Conditionals
This book is an extremely detailed and comprehensive examination of conditional sentences in...
EAN: 9783110171440
Metre of Beowulf
This book presents a novel treatment of the metre of Beowulf, an Old English epic poem of...
EAN: 9783110171051
Cross-Linguistic Corpora for the Study of Translations
This book is a contribution to the study of translation as a contact variety, and - more...
EAN: 9783110260298
Verb Valency Patterns
Based on an empirical study of English verbs, the author discusses to what extent complementation...
EAN: 9783110240719
Contrastive Register Variation
The book provides the first comparison of usage preferences across registers in the language pair...
EAN: 9783110238587
Typological Changes in the Lexicon
Looks at the typological change of English from a synthetic towards an analytic language,...
EAN: 9783110238204
English Rhythms in Russian Verse: On the Experiment of Joseph Brodsky
It is often said that the Russian poet Joseph Brodsky "sounds English" when he writes in Russian,...
EAN: 9783110238082
