Language structure and variation / edited by Magnus Ljung.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ljung, Magnus.

Series:

Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis. Stockholm studies in English ; 92.

Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis. Stockholm studies in English ; 92

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Variation.

English language.

Language and languages--Variation.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

v, 212 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Stockholm : Almqvist & Wiksell International, 2000.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9163100142

OCLC:

47086023