Twentieth-century English : history, variation, and standardization /
Documents changes to the vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation of Standard English over the past century.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2006.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9780511335211 0511335210 0511333978 9780511333972 051133463X 9780511334634 9786611040284 6611040285 9780511333293 0511333293 9780511486951 0511486952 9780521115834 0521115833 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgments; 1 Setting the scene; 2 Ongoing language change: problems of detection and verification; 3 Lexical change in twentieth-century English; 4 Grammatical changes in twentieth-century English; 5 Pronunciation; 6 Language change in context: changing communicative and discourse norms in twentieth-century English; Conclusion; Appendix 1 Brief survey of the corpora used for the present study; Appendix 2 The OED Baseline Corpora; Appendix 3 Estimating text size in the newspaper archives and the World Wide Web.