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Author : Eric Partridge
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (245 download)
Download or read book British and American English Since 1990 written by Eric Partridge and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eric Partridge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book British and American English Since 1900 written by Eric Partridge and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Baker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107088860
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book American and British English written by Paul Baker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is British English becoming more like American English? Paul Baker tracks the changes, trends and distinctions of both languages to answer this question.
Author : Christian Roßmeier
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3668906726
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (689 download)
Download or read book Differences in British and American English. A Corpus-based Case Study written by Christian Roßmeier and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2019-03-25 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,7, University of Bayreuth, language: English, abstract: Considering the "inevitability of change", Ferdinand de Saussure once stated: "Time changes all things: there is no reason why language should escape this universal law". In reference to the English language, Trask noted: "English [...] has been changing throughout its history and is still changing today". In doing so, there is a great number of factors playing an important role for ongoing changes in a language such as sociolinguistic causes of chance which are illustrated in Aitchison in a very coherent and detailed way. "Geographical separation" will be the central keyword, as I will investigate differences and varieties in British and American English use of language. Surprisingly, in comparing Australia and New Zealand, where "equally big differences in language [...] from their mother country" could be expected, it turns out that this is not the case. Although differences in slang expressions can be recognized, spelling and word usage, actually, are alike the original British form so that these differences seem trivial in contrast to the variety of English used in the United States. Therefore, I have decided to focus my attention on specific distinctive attributes of the American variety of English and, based on foregoing research in this field, to create a questionnaire whereby central hypotheses are to be checked and verified, at best. Hence, this paper comprises a brief summary of previous knowledge on this matter, so to speak the theoretical background of my work. Moreover, not only regional factors play a role but also the interviewee's social background when it comes to certain features of language such as word use. Thus, it is highly exciting to see what assessments will be done in the course of this paper.
Author : Eric Partridge
Publisher : Philosophical Library
ISBN 13 : 9780802212771
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (127 download)
Download or read book British and American English Since Nineteen Hundred written by Eric Partridge and published by Philosophical Library. This book was released on 1951 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eric 1894-1979 Partridge
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781013951336
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (513 download)
Download or read book British and American English Since 1900 written by Eric 1894-1979 Partridge and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Lynne Murphy
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1524704881
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)
Download or read book The Prodigal Tongue written by Lynne Murphy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CHOSEN BY THE ECONOMIST AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR An American linguist teaching in England explores the sibling rivalry between British and American English “English accents are the sexiest.” “Americans have ruined the English language.” Such claims about the English language are often repeated but rarely examined. Professor Lynne Murphy is on the linguistic front line. In The Prodigal Tongue she explores the fiction and reality of the special relationship between British and American English. By examining the causes and symptoms of American Verbal Inferiority Complex and its flipside, British Verbal Superiority Complex, Murphy unravels the prejudices, stereotypes and insecurities that shape our attitudes to our own language. With great humo(u)r and new insights, Lynne Murphy looks at the social, political and linguistic forces that have driven American and British English in different directions: how Americans got from centre to center, why British accents are growing away from American ones, and what different things we mean when we say estate, frown, or middle class. Is anyone winning this war of the words? Will Yanks and Brits ever really understand each other?
Author : Eric Partridge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (469 download)
Download or read book British and American English Since 1900 by Eric Partridge and John W. Clark written by Eric Partridge and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Terttu Nevalainen (linguiste)
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190627883
Total Pages : 983 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the History of English written by Terttu Nevalainen (linguiste) and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 983 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ambitious handbook takes advantage of recent advances in the study of the history of English to rethink the understanding of the field.
Author : Christian Mair
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139459627
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Twentieth-Century English written by Christian Mair and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-26 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Standard English has evolved and developed in many ways over the past hundred years. From pronunciation to vocabulary to grammar, this concise survey clearly documents the recent history of Standard English. Drawing on large amounts of authentic corpus data, it shows how we can track ongoing changes to the language, and demonstrates each of the major developments that have taken place. As well as taking insights from a vast body of literature, Christian Mair presents the results of his own cutting-edge research, revealing some important changes which have not been previously documented. He concludes by exploring how social and cultural factors, such as the American influence on British English, have affected Standard English in recent times. Authoritative, informative and engaging, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in language change in progress, particularly those working on English, and will be welcomed by students, researchers and language teachers alike.
Author : Terttu Nevalainen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199996385
Total Pages : 983 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the History of English written by Terttu Nevalainen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 983 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The availability of large electronic corpora has caused major shifts in linguistic research, including the ability to analyze much more data than ever before, and to perform micro-analyses of linguistic structures across languages. This has historical linguists to rethink many standard assumptions about language history, and methods and approaches that are relevant to the study of it. The field is now interested in, and attracts, specialists whose fields range from statistical modeling to acoustic phonetics. These changes have even transformed linguists' perceptions of the very processes of language change, particularly in English, the most studied language in historical linguistics due to the size of available data and its status as a global language. The Oxford Handbook of the History of English takes stock of recent advances in the study of the history of English, broadening and deepening the understanding of the field. It seeks to suggest ways to rethink the relationship of English's past with its present, and make transparent the variety of conditions and processes that have been instrumental in shaping that history. Setting a new standard of cross-theoretical collaboration, it covers the field in an innovative way, providing diachronic accounts of major influences such as language contact, and typological processes that have shaped English and its varieties, as well as highlighting recent and ongoing developments of Englishes--celebrating the vitality of language change over the centuries and the many contexts and processes through which language change occurs.
Author : Ans van Kemenade
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470756802
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (77 download)
Download or read book The Handbook of the History of English written by Ans van Kemenade and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of the History of English is a collection of articles written by leading specialists in the field that focus on the theoretical issues behind the facts of the changing English language. organizes the theoretical issues behind the facts of the changing English language innovatively and applies recent insights to old problems surveys the history of English from the perspective of structural developments in areas such as phonology, prosody, morphology, syntax, semantics, language variation, and dialectology offers readers a comprehensive overview of the various theoretical perspectives available to the study of the history of English and sets new objectives for further research
Author : Eric Partridge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (563 download)
Download or read book British and American English Since 1900. By E.H. Partridge and John W. Clark ... With Contributions on English in Canada, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and India written by Eric Partridge and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eleni Papadopoulou
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638883264
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (388 download)
Download or read book Concord with Collective Nouns in British and American English written by Eleni Papadopoulou and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2008 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1-, University of Sheffield, course: "An Introduction to Corpus Linguistics", 5 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: 1. Introduction The main and most important part of this term paper is based upon a personal corpus- based study, which should from the start be clearly characterized as relatively restrictive and not quite large in size, in order to avoid any further problems and misunderstandings. This study I mentioned above concerns and tries to closely examine the phenomenon of collective nouns, and to be more specific, we will try to examine the concord with collective nouns in both British and American English of the 1990's, always with the hidden desire to finally come with a reasonable conclusion towards the end of the paper. In order to succeed in this procedure we will first try to give some short definitions of the most basic notions, which are used in the following pages. Then, we will proceed in describing the corpora, as well as the methodology used. Moreover, we will point out the problems that automatically arise from the fact of defining the collective nouns themselves on the one hand and of this corpus- based study as a whole on the other hand. After making these essential things clear, we will become more familiar with the theories regarding this subject; theories and theses that already exist, they have already been uttered and can be found in various books of grammar of the English language. Later on we will reveal and present the overall frequencies that derived from studying the corpora representing British and American English always in terms of concord with collective nouns. These frequencies will consist the exact findings of the study, regarding the percentages of collective nouns, which can be treated either as singulars or plurals. In addition, exploiting those findings a comparison should be made amongst the
Author : Paul Baker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108364063
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (83 download)
Download or read book American and British English written by Paul Baker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is British English becoming more like American English? If so, why, and in what ways? This book compares examples of American and British language data from the 1930s, 1960s, 1990s and 2000s, to track the most important ways that both varieties are changing over time, and compares the extent to which they are following similar paths using a mixture of computer and human analysis. The analysis is carried out across several levels, including spelling differences (such as colour vs color), vocabulary (truck vs lorry), and a range of morphological, grammatical, semantic and pragmatic features. Baker explores the changing aspects of American and British society which help to explain the findings.
Author : Remco Knooihuizen
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031416929
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (314 download)
Download or read book The Linguistics of the History of English written by Remco Knooihuizen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-10-27 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook approaches the history of English from a theoretical perspective. The book provides a brief chronological overview describing the way in which the English language has changed over time from Old English to Modern English, while subsequent parts adopt a theoretical focus that is thematically organised to deal with the question of how and why English changed in the way it did, including a part addressing some specific contact-induced changes and key topics such as English as a Lingua Franca. Supported throughout with information boxes with empirical studies, the examples given are all drawn from English, but boxes with examples from other languages tie the development of the English language into changes in other contexts and settings. This book is an ideal resource for undergraduate students of the English Language and historical linguistics.
Author : Bas Aarts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139619659
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (396 download)
Download or read book The Verb Phrase in English written by Bas Aarts and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chapters in this volume feature new and groundbreaking research carried out by leading scholars and promising young researchers from around the world on recent changes in the English verb phrase. Drawing on authentic corpus data, the papers consider both spoken and written English in several genres. Each contribution pays particular attention to the methodologies used for investigating short-term patterns of change in English, with detailed discussions of controversies in this area. This cutting-edge collection is essential reading for historians of the English language, syntacticians and corpus linguists.
