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English language -- Grammar, Comparative.
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English language -- Grammar, Historical.
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English language -- Variation.
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English language -- Great Britain.
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English language -- United States.
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| Descript |
1 online resource (xxiv, 461 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
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text txt |
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computer c |
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online resource cr |
| Note |
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
| Contents |
Introduction / Günter Rohdenburg and Julia Schlüter -- Colonial lag, colonial innovation or simply language change? / Marianne Hundt -- Compound verbs / Peter Erdmann -- The formation of the preterite and the past participle / Magnus Levin -- Synthetic and analytic comparatives / Britta Mondorf -- Phonology and grammar / Julia Schlüter -- Prepositions and postpositions / Eva Berlage -- Argument structure / David Denison -- Reflexive structures / Günter Rohdenburg -- Non-finite complements / Uwe Vosberg -- The present perfect and the preterite / Johan Elsness -- The revived subjunctive / Göran Kjellmer -- The mandative subjunctive / William J. Crawford -- The conditional subjunctive / Julia Schlüter -- Tag questions / D.J. Allerton -- The pragmatics of adverbs / Karin Aijmer -- How different are American and British English grammar? And how are they different? / Gunnel Tottie -- New departures / Günter Rohdenburg and Julia Schlüter. |
| Note |
Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU |
| Alt author |
Rohdenburg, Günter, 1940-
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Schlüter, Julia, 1973-
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| ISBN |
9780511551970 (ebook) |
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