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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... possible ' The parallels between these languages are unmissable and several cognate suffixes are clearly involved . In a language - neutral spelling these could be rendered as : BAR , LIC and SAM . Of the three , BAR seems to be the ...
... possible ' The parallels between these languages are unmissable and several cognate suffixes are clearly involved . In a language - neutral spelling these could be rendered as : BAR , LIC and SAM . Of the three , BAR seems to be the ...
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... possible to trace linguistic changes in this relatively informal writ- ten genre . Moreover , it has been possible to identify the social backgrounds of the vast majority of writers and recipients and use this information for ...
... possible to trace linguistic changes in this relatively informal writ- ten genre . Moreover , it has been possible to identify the social backgrounds of the vast majority of writers and recipients and use this information for ...
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... possible , but it would certainly not have made it necessary . In fact , English had earlier seen vowels lengthened rather than shortened in the same context : the long vowels in ModE drake , stave , bead , coal , sheet , shade seem to ...
... possible , but it would certainly not have made it necessary . In fact , English had earlier seen vowels lengthened rather than shortened in the same context : the long vowels in ModE drake , stave , bead , coal , sheet , shade seem to ...
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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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