Language structure and variation / edited by Magnus Ljung.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Stockholm : Almqvist & Wiksell International, [2000]
Description
v, 212 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

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Series
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
  • It's okay / K. Aijmer
  • Incidental nominal compounds in the Skellefte dialect: an example of the interface between word-formation and syntax / C. Alm-Arvius
  • The women - where are they? Gender pronouns in detective and suspense fiction / M. Bönnemark
  • Prosody - difficult? A study of differences between English and Swedish prosody and transfers from L1 to L2 / B. Erman
  • Noah's flood and the search for the Indo-Europeans / S. Hargevik
  • Attitude problems? The Old Saxon and Old English Genesis poems / J. Hines
  • Rules vs. principles in academic writing / C. Ilie
  • On the time-depth of variability: orm and farmon as H-droppers / N.-L. Johannesson
  • The new written Scots dialect in present-day Northern Ireland / J. Kirk
  • Text compression in written English texts / M. Ljung
  • Knitting up the ravelled sleeve of language / D. Minugh
  • Makbed belong Willum Sekspia: "Förvildad Engelska"? / S. Romaine
  • Enough! Finite and non-finite complementation in British and American English / G. Tottie
  • Sociohistorical linguistics and dialect survival: a note on another Nova Scotian enclave / P. Trudgill
  • The mysterious bona fide adjectives / B. Warren.
ISBN
9163100142
OCLC
47086023
RCP
C - S
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