Language Form and Linguistic Variation: Papers dedicated to Angus McIntosh

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Language Form and Linguistic Variation

Papers dedicated to Angus McIntosh

Edited by: John A.E. Anderson

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1982

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Volume 15 | Current Issues in Linguistic Theory

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The papers in this volume celebrate the work of Angus McIntosh, who specialized in dialects of Later Middle English, and wrote on other topics in English linguistics as well. Of the papers in this volume most deal with English and a few with other subjects in (historical) dialectology.

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Linguistics and Semiotics Applied Linguistics Forensic Linguistics

Prelim pages Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Dedicatory preface Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Table of contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Lemmatization — the case of ‘Catalpa’ Frederic G. Cassidy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Marking and frequency in the english verb John C. Catford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	11
Complements and humours Bridget Cusack Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	29
Problems in dyirbal dialectology R.M.W. Dixon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	43
The phonological representation of the welsh mutations Colin J. Ewen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	75
Has every sentence a theme and a rheme? Jan Firbas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	97
Isophones or isographs? A problem in historical dialectology Jacek Fisiak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	117
The de-automization of meaning from Priestley’s ‘An inspector calls’ M.A.K. Halliday Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	129
‘Thwaite’ Eric P. Hamp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	161
Rhymes and reasons, the practice of two poets Archibald A. Hill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	169
two geminate consonants in old english? Richard M. Hogg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	187
Borrow, calgue and switch The law of the english frontier Donald Macaulay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	203
The stylistic analysis of poetic texts Owen’s ‘Futility’ and Davie’s ‘the garden party’ Norman Macleod Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	239
Old english Man ‘One’ two notes Bruce Mitchell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	277
Simplifying the grammar of english Wayne O’Neil Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	285
Verbal aspect A slavonic-english comparison Ivan Poldauf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	307
Communicative needs in the learning and use of english John B. Pride Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	321
Supplementing corpus elicitation Randolph Quirk and Jan Rusiecki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	379
Latin for old english in anglo-saxon manuscripts Fred C. Robinson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	395
Wh- and Yes/no questions Charles butler’s grammar (1633) and the history of a linguistic concept Vivian Salmon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	401
Some aspects of the history of the Be+ing construction Barbara M.H. Strang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	427
A note on the indefinite article James P. Thorne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	475
Written language as a heterogeneous system Josef Vachek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	485

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March 18, 2011

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9789027286499

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496

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.15

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Theoretical linguistics; Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

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