Tracing English Through Time: Explorations in Language Variation : in Honour of Herbert Schendl on the Occasion of His 65th BirthdayUte Smit |
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... less frequent than that found in contemporary texts , i.e. 10.8 % as against 24.5 % . Lowth thus clearly preferred the indicative following the con- junctions analysed ( 53.2 % ) . Even though the ARCHER results also reveal that the ...
... less frequent than that found in contemporary texts , i.e. 10.8 % as against 24.5 % . Lowth thus clearly preferred the indicative following the con- junctions analysed ( 53.2 % ) . Even though the ARCHER results also reveal that the ...
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... less influence on each other's language , and that greater distance seems to increase the chances of code - mixing . This may point towards peripherality as a factor favouring code - mixing ( Tref- fers - Daller 1994 ) ; 3. the mean ...
... less influence on each other's language , and that greater distance seems to increase the chances of code - mixing . This may point towards peripherality as a factor favouring code - mixing ( Tref- fers - Daller 1994 ) ; 3. the mean ...
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... less and less visible in the lexicon , the more of the monosyllables that can possibly end in / d / actually get formed . Even if speakers have such an aversion against short vowels before / d / that they will form words with such a ...
... less and less visible in the lexicon , the more of the monosyllables that can possibly end in / d / actually get formed . Even if speakers have such an aversion against short vowels before / d / that they will form words with such a ...
Contents
Robert Lowth and the use of the inflectional subjunctive | 1 |
Alexander Gills account of northern speech | 17 |
Is this doable? Tracing the expression | 33 |
Copyright | |
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