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British or American English?
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 37.00This is a clearly organized guide to the differences - and similarities - between the grammar of British and American speakers of English. Assuming no prior knowledge of linguistics, and containing extensive quotations from real-life English on both sides of the Atlantic, it provides an accessible account of contemporary English in use. more...
English Corpus Linguistics
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 40.00English Corpus Linguistics is a step-by-step guide to creating and analyzing linguistic corpora. The author shows how to collect and computerize data for inclusion in a corpus; how to annotate the data; and how to conduct a linguistic analysis of it once it has been created. more...
Gender Shifts in the History of English
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 33.00How did grammatical gender in English get replaced by a system dependent on natural gender? How is this related to 'irregular agreement' (she for ships) and 'sexist' language use (generic he) in Modern English? This study, based on extensive corpus data, offers an important historical perspective on these controversial questions. more...
English in the Southern United States
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 30.00This volume, written by a team of experts, many of them internationally known, provides a broad overview of the foundations of and current research on language variation in the southern United States. Central themes, issues and topics of scholarly investigation and debate figure prominently throughout the volume. more...
Legacies of Colonial English
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 58.00As a result of colonisation, many varieties of English now exist around the world. Legacies of Colonial English explores the role of British dialects in both the genesis and subsequent history of postcolonial Englishes, and how it came about that many still reflect non-standard British usage from the distant past. more...
New Zealand English
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 45.00New Zealand English is one of the newest varieties of English, and is unique in that its history and development are documented in extensive audio-recordings. On the basis of these recordings, this book examines the linguistic changes New Zealand English has undergone since it was first spoken in the 1850s. more...
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