Insights Into Late Modern English Contributor(s): Gotti, Maurizio (Author), Dossena, Marina (Editor), Jones, Charles (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0820489271 ISBN-13: 9780820489278 Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing OUR PRICE: $69.30 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2008 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines |
Dewey: 427.09 |
Series: Linguistic Insights. Studies in Language and Communication |
Physical Information: 378 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This volume includes 15 papers focussing on three important aspects of the history of English in Britain and overseas since the eighteenth century: the grammatical tradition of prescriptivism, syntactic developments and sociolinguistic factors affecting language variation. |