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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... period of the Helsinki Corpus , we find in the earliest sub - period four possibly deverbal types representing 14 tokens vs. 116 denominal ones : dysig ' foolish , dizzy ' , grindig ' V grindan ; grinding ' gemyndig ' V gemynan ...
... period of the Helsinki Corpus , we find in the earliest sub - period four possibly deverbal types representing 14 tokens vs. 116 denominal ones : dysig ' foolish , dizzy ' , grindig ' V grindan ; grinding ' gemyndig ' V gemynan ...
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... period . Since I will use the Oxford English Dictionary ( OED ) as my main reference tool , the comprehensiveness and reliability of its entries for the period under investigation will be tested at the same time . After a brief look at ...
... period . Since I will use the Oxford English Dictionary ( OED ) as my main reference tool , the comprehensiveness and reliability of its entries for the period under investigation will be tested at the same time . After a brief look at ...
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... period 1500- 1650. Barber ( 1976 : 166 ) , who analyzed a 2 % sample of the OED , found an increase of 1,988 words for the same period . More telling than the exact figures is Barber's statement that between the end of the Middle ...
... period 1500- 1650. Barber ( 1976 : 166 ) , who analyzed a 2 % sample of the OED , found an increase of 1,988 words for the same period . More telling than the exact figures is Barber's statement that between the end of the Middle ...
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Robert Lowth and the use of the inflectional subjunctive | 1 |
Alexander Gills account of northern speech | 17 |
Is this doable? Tracing the expression | 33 |
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