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English linguistics : a coursebook for students of English / by Thomas Herbst.
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Principles of modern linguistics; 3. Language, intuition and corpora; 4. …”
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Corpus Linguistics : Refinements and Reassessments.
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…Introduction Corpus Linguistics: Refinements and Reassessments; Corpus linguistics meets sociolinguistics: the role of corpus evidence in the study of sociolinguistic variation and change; Creating corpora from spoken legacy materials: variation and change meet corpus linguistics; Discourse linguistics meets corpus linguistics: theoretical and methodological issues in the troubled relationship; 'Tis well known to barbers and laundresses: Overt references to knowledge in English medical writing from the Middle Ages to the Present Day.…”
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Topics in English Linguistics : Variational Text Linguistics : Revisiting Register in English.
Published 2016Table of Contents: “…-- 'Now niggas talk a lotta Bad Boy shit': The register hip-hop from a corpus-linguistic perspective -- The register of English crossword puzzles: Studies in intertextuality -- Section II: Cross-register comparison -- Punctuation as an indication of register: Comics and academic texts -- Linking up register and cognitive perspectives: Parenthetical constructions in academic prose and experimentalist poetry -- Cohesive devices across registers and varieties: The role of medium in English -- Section III: Regional, contrastive and diachronic register variation -- Metaphors in New English academic writing -- The influence of register on noun phrase complexity in varieties of English -- Real-time online text commentaries: A cross-cultural perspective -- Word order is in order here: A diachronic register analysis of syntactic markedness in English -- Index.…”
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Introduction to English Linguistics.
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…Extensions and applications: historical linguistics, sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics; 7.1 Introduction.…”
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Introduction to English linguistics / Ingo Plag [and three others].
Published 2015Table of Contents: “…6.2 Expressing intentions through language6.2.1 Using language to act: speech acts; 6.2.2 Speech acts: a closer look; 6.2.3 Classifying speech acts; 6.2.4 Realisations of speech acts: direct and indirect speech acts; 6.2.5 Performing speech acts successfully: felicity conditions; 6.3 Understanding utterance meaning; 6.4 Exploring pragmatic principles; 6.4.1 The Cooperative Principle; 6.4.2 Politeness; 6.5 Conclusion; Further reading; Exercises; 7 Extensions and applications: historical linguistics, sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics; 7.1 Introduction.…”
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Translation, linguistics, culture : a French-English handbook / Nigel Armstrong.
Published 2005Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 The Linguistic Bases of Translation; Chapter 2 Approaching a Text; Chapter 3 Translation Issues at the Word Level; Chapter 4 Words in Combination; Chapter 5 Translation Issues at the Syntactic Level; Chapter 6 Translation Types and Procedures; Chapter 7 Some Miscellaneous Issues; References.…”
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Generative linguistics and acquisition : studies in honor of Nina M....
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Evidence from spontaneous production data / Ana Lúcia Santos, Jason Rothman, Acrisio Pires & Inês Duarte -- The relationship between determiner omission and root infinitives in child English / Carson Schütze -- The semantics of the tense deficit in child Spanish SLI / John Grinstead, Dan McCurley, Teresa Pratt, Patrick Obregon & Blanca Flores -- The acquisition of reflexives and pronouns by Faroese children / Sigríður Sigurjónsdóttir -- Pronouns vs. definite descriptions / Kyle Johnson -- An L2 study on the production of stress patterns in English compounds / Maria Luisa Zubizarreta, Xiao He & Natalie Jonckheere -- The syntactic domain of context / Hagit Borer -- There-insertion: how Internal Merge guides the acquisition path / Tom Roeper -- Metalinguistic skills of children / Helen Smith Cairns -- Children's grammatical conservatism: new evidence / Koji Sugisaki & William Snyder -- Contributing to linguistic theory, language description and the characterization of language development through experimental studies -- A new theory of null-subjects of finite verbs in young children: information-structure meets phasal computation / Ken Wexler.…”
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Linguistics and literary history : in honour of Sylvia Adamson / edited by Anita Auer ; Victorina González-Díaz ; Jane Hodson ; Violeta Sotirova.
Published 2016Table of Contents: “…Linguistics and Literary History; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction; References; Enregistering the North: The dialect of Mendicus in William Bullein's Dialogue Against the Fever Pestilence; 1. …”
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Corpus linguistics and sociolinguistics : a study of variation and change in the modal systems of world Englishes / by Beke Hansen.
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Communication and linguistics skills : an essential guide to students and teachers / Farah Ali Nur.
Published 2019Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Communication and Linguistics Skills: An Essential Guide to Students and Teachers -- About the Author -- About the Book -- Copyright Information © -- Chapter 1 -- Introduction to Communication -- Formal vs. …”
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Corpus linguistics on the move : exploring and understanding English through corpora /...
Published 2016Table of Contents: “…Preface -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1 From the Fringe to the Mainstream: English Corpus Linguistics Moving Ahead -- Part 1 Issues in Corpus Compilation -- Chapter 2 English Urban Vernaculars, 1400-1700: Digitizing Text from Manuscript -- Chapter 3 Creating a Corpus of Student Writing in Economics: Structure and Representativeness -- Chapter 4 Ongoing Changes and Advanced L2 Use of English: Evidence from New Corpus Resources -- Part 2 Investigating Register Variation through Corpora -- Chapter 5 Verbs and Verb Phrases in Advanced Dutch EFL Writing: Case Studies in Quantitative and Qualitative EFL Analysis -- Chapter 6 Discourse-Organizing Metadiscourse in Novice Academic English -- Chapter 7 Passives in Academic Writing: Comparing Research Articles and Student Essays Across Four Disciplines -- Chapter 8 Adverbial Hapax Legomena in News Text: Why do some Coinages Remain Hapax? …”
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English corpus linguistics : an introduction / Charles F. Meyer.
Published 2002Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1 Corpus analysis and linguistic theory; 2 Planning the construction of a corpus; 3 Collecting and computerizing data; 4 Annotating a corpus; 5 Analyzing a corpus; 6 Future prospects in corpus linguistics; Appendix 1 Corpus resources; Appendix 2 Concordancing programs; References; Index.…”
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Skeptical linguistic essays / Paul M. Postal.
Published 2004Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Studies in Linguistics -- 1. A Paradox in English Syntax -- 2. …”
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The handbook of English linguistics / edited by Bas Aarts and April McMahon.
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The handbook of English linguistics / edited by Bas Aarts and April McMahon.
Published 2008Subjects: “…Linguistics Handbooks, manuals, etc.…”
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The Changing Face of Corpus Linguistics.
Published 2006Table of Contents: “…The Web as a Corpus; 5. Corpus Linguistics and Grammatical Theory; 6. Grammar Discussion Panel.…”
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Within language, beyond theories. edited by Anna Bloch-Rozmej and Karolina Drabikowska.
Published 2015Subjects: “…Linguistics.…”
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Selfish sounds and linguistic evolution : a Darwinian approach to language change / Nikolaus Ritt.
Published 2004Table of Contents: “…; 3.3.7 Summary; 3.4 Reconstructing a particular 'phonological change'; 3.4.1 Language evolution as property replication; 3.4.1.1 What makes replicating systems special; 3.4.1.2 The study of replicating systems and the linguistic community; 3.4.1.3 Summary and outlook; 4 The Darwinian approach; 4.1 A linguist's view of evolutionary biology.…”
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Linguistic sex roles in conversation : social variation in the expression of tentativeness in English / by Bent Preisler.
Published 1986Table of Contents: “…revised IPA model (1970)""""4.4 IPA categories as ComActs""; ""4.5 Role analysis""; ""4.6 Summary of IPA procedures""; ""5 The application of linguistic tentativeness signals""; ""5.1 Linguistic tentativeness""; ""5.2 The realization of the ComAct""; ""5.3 Main-clause structure""; ""5.4 Subclause function""; ""5.5 Modality and modal constructions""; ""5.6 Modal auxiliary verbs""; ""5.7 Tag questions""; ""5.8 Hedges""; ""5.9 Lexical modal forms""; ""5.10 Modality and lexico-structural prominence""; ""5.11 Lexical clause-external modal constructions""…”
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