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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... verbal -s in AAVE and its precur- sors , its mere existence ( and frequency ) has been the subject of some debate . As is well known , the genesis of African American English has been hotly debated for many decades . While many scholars ...
... verbal -s in AAVE and its precur- sors , its mere existence ( and frequency ) has been the subject of some debate . As is well known , the genesis of African American English has been hotly debated for many decades . While many scholars ...
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... verbal -s in 19th - century African American English ? " . In Schneider , E. W. ( ed . ) . Focus on the USA . Amsterdam : Benjamins , 211-230 . Pietsch , L. 2005. Variable grammars . Verbal agreement in northern dialects of Eng- lish ...
... verbal -s in 19th - century African American English ? " . In Schneider , E. W. ( ed . ) . Focus on the USA . Amsterdam : Benjamins , 211-230 . Pietsch , L. 2005. Variable grammars . Verbal agreement in northern dialects of Eng- lish ...
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... verbal signs emerged in addition to existing iconic signs . Evidence is available that many symbolic verbal signs have evolved from iconic signs ( cf. also hieroglyphs , which as icons refer to visible entities ) . This change in type ...
... verbal signs emerged in addition to existing iconic signs . Evidence is available that many symbolic verbal signs have evolved from iconic signs ( cf. also hieroglyphs , which as icons refer to visible entities ) . This change in type ...
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 |
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adjectives analysis appear Cambridge century clause code-switching cohesive concepts corpus course dependencies derived dialect directions discussion distribution Early Early Modern evidence example expressions fact Figure forms French frequent function German given grammar head historical illustrated indicative inflectional instances interesting Italie knowledge language Languedoc Latin less letters lexical Lincolnshire linguistic London look Lowth's maps meaning medieval Middle English mixed ModE Modern English monolingual northern noted object occur Old English original Oxford particular past patterns period person phrase position possible present Press principle question reference relations relative represent Schendl seems short shows similarity speakers speech structure subjunctive suffix suggest switched syntactic Table texts tion types unit University usage values Vancouver variation varieties verb verbal vowels words