Tous les livres numériques de la collection "Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change" - Palgrave Macmillan

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Télécharger le livre : Changes in Complementation in British and American English
Changes in Complementation in British and American English
J. Rudanko
The book shows how the system of English predicate complementation has been undergoing an amazing amount of variation and change in recent centuries, and identifies explanatory principles to account for this change and variation, with evidence from large electronic...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-04-05
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change PDF

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Télécharger le livre : The Subjunctive in the Age of Prescriptivism
The Subjunctive in the Age of Prescriptivism
A. Auer
This monograph focuses on the description, use and development of the inflectional subjunctive in English and German in the eighteenth century. A close comparison between meta-linguistic comments (eighteenth-century grammars) and actual language usage (corpus study)...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2008-12-19
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change PDF

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Télécharger le livre : Diachronic Change in the English Passive
Diachronic Change in the English Passive
J. Toyota
In this coherent historical development of the passive voice in English, the main argument deals not only with the passive per se, but also with its related constructions, which can play vital parts in identifying both functional and structural motivations for creating...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2008-11-05
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change PDF

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Télécharger le livre : Word Frequency and Lexical Diffusion
Word Frequency and Lexical Diffusion
B. Phillips
This study of word frequency effects on sound change provides a resolution of the Neogrammarian controversy. Betty S. Phillips discusses the implications for phonology and historical linguistics of certain types of change affecting the most frequent words first and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2006-09-29
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change PDF

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Télécharger le livre : Consonant Change in English Worldwide
Consonant Change in English Worldwide
D. Schreier
Applying insights from variationist linguistics to historical change mechanisms that have affected the consonantal system of English, Daniel Schreier reports findings from a historical corpus-based study on the reduction of particular consonant clusters and compares...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2005-11-01
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change PDF

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