The Lesser-Known Varieties of English

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in English Language
• This is the first ever volume to compile sociolinguistic and historical information on lesser-known, and relatively ignored, native varieties of Engli... Lees meer

Grammatical Variation in British English Dialects

Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in English Language
• Variation within the English language is a vast research area, of which dialectology, the study of geographic variation, is a significant part. This b... Lees meer

Mexican American English

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in English Language
• Responding to the need for a comprehensive treatment of Mexican American English and its varied influences across multiple generations, this volume pr... Lees meer

Grammar, Rhetoric and Usage in English

Nuria Yáñez-Bouza

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in English Language
• The preposition is of particular interest to syntacticians, historians and sociolinguists of English, as its placement within a sentence is influenced... Lees meer

Legacies of Colonial English

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in English Language
• This collection brings together internationally-renowned scholars to discuss the role of British dialects in the genesis and subsequent history of pos... Lees meer

British or American English?

John Algeo

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in English Language
• Speakers of British and American English display some striking differences in their use of grammar. In this detailed survey, John Algeo considers ques... Lees meer

Interactions Across Englishes

Christiane Meierkord

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in English Language
• 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 d... Lees meer

The English Language in Canada

Charles Boberg

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in English Language
• The English Language in Canada examines the current status, history and principal features of Canadian English, focusing on the 'standard' variety hea... Lees meer

The Culture of Singapore English

Jock O Wong

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in English Language
• This book provides a fresh approach to Singapore English, by focusing on its cultural connotations. The author, a native Singaporean, explores a range... Lees meer

Varieties of English

Peter French, David Langford

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in English Language | nr. 2
• This new edition of the best selling, topic-based introduction to spoken and written English, is now fully revised and expanded with over 50% more mat... Lees meer

English Corpus Linguistics

Charles F Meyer

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in English Language
• This step-by-step guide to creating and analyzing linguistic corpora discusses the role that corpus linguistics plays in linguistic theory. It demonst... Lees meer

Borrowings in Informal American English

Malgorzata Kowalczyk

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in English Language
• What do 'bimbo, ' 'glitch, ' 'savvy, ' and 'shtick' all have in common? They are all expressions used in informal American English that have been take... Lees meer

Transitional Morphology

Elisa Mattiello

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in English Language
• Combining Forms (CFs) are a major morphological phenomenon in Modern English, yet while they have been discussed in some morphological literature, no ... Lees meer

Medical Writing in Early Modern English

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in English Language
• Medical writing tells us a great deal about how the language of science has developed in constructing and communicating knowledge in English. This vol... Lees meer

Noun Phrase Complexity in English

Eva Berlage

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in English Language
• This book explores noun phrase (NP) complexity in English, showing that it is best accounted for both by a linear and a hierarchical parameter: its le... Lees meer

English Coordinate Constructions

Arne Lohmann

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in English Language
• Drawing on extensive corpus-based research, this book explores the nature and behavior of coordinate constructions in three case studies, covering ord... Lees meer

Preposition Placement in English

Thomas Hoffmann

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in English Language
• Preposition placement, the competition between preposition stranding (What is he talking about?) and pied-piping (About what is he talking?), is one o... Lees meer

Grammar, Rhetoric and Usage in English

Nuria Yáñez-Bouza

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in English Language
• The preposition is of particular interest to syntacticians, historians and sociolinguists of English, as its placement within a sentence is influenced... Lees meer

Antonyms in English

Steven Jones, M Lynne Murphy, Carita Paradis, Caroline Willners

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in English Language
• The study of antonyms (or 'opposites') in a language can provide important insight into word meaning and discourse structures. This book provides an e... Lees meer

Analysing Older English

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in English Language
• Is historical linguistics different in principle from other linguistic research? This book addresses problems encountered in gathering and analysing d... Lees meer

Conversation in World Englishes

Theresa Neumaier

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in English Language
• Turn-taking is a fascinating feature of conversational interaction, due to its systematic and ordered nature. However, research has so far focused mai... Lees meer

Signalling Nouns in English

John Flowerdew, Richard W Forest

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in English Language
• Signalling nouns (SNs) are abstract nouns like 'fact', 'idea', 'problem' and 'result', which are non-specific in their meaning when considered in isol... Lees meer

Russian English

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in English Language
• This fascinating book offers a comprehensive exploration of Russian English as a World English variety. The authors introduce readers to the history o... Lees meer

Further Studies in the Lesser-Known Varieties of English

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in English Language
• This volume follows on from The Lesser-Known Varieties of English (Cambridge, 2010), by documenting a further range of varieties that have been overlo... Lees meer