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Function and grammar in the history of English
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Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Preface v
- Table of contents vii
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Variation in speech communities
- The exact description of a speech community 1
- Patterned symmetry of shifting and lengthened vowels in the Montreal French Vernacular (MFV) 59
- New results on Montreal French /r/ 85
- Is urban influence VARB-able? 95
- Montreal French 107
- Social determinants of the use of English in Sweden 119
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Syntactic and morphological change
- Function and grammar in the history of English 133
- The English gerund 173
- Morphological productivity word frequency, and the Oxford English Dictionary 197
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Syntactic variation
- Syntactization in language development 203
- Choosing between that and it 241
- Inside and outside relative clauses 255
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Variation in language development
- Addressing new questions about Black children’s language 275
- Structural variability in phonological development 301
- The development of syntactic complexity in narrative, informative and argumentative discourse 333
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Controversies and methods in the study of linguistic variation
- Some problems in defining syntactic variables 351
- A closer look at some so-called variable processes 367
- Some approaches to syntactic variation 381
- A versatile program for the analysis of sociolinguistic data 395
- The care and handling of a mega-corpus 411
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Preface v
- Table of contents vii
-
Variation in speech communities
- The exact description of a speech community 1
- Patterned symmetry of shifting and lengthened vowels in the Montreal French Vernacular (MFV) 59
- New results on Montreal French /r/ 85
- Is urban influence VARB-able? 95
- Montreal French 107
- Social determinants of the use of English in Sweden 119
-
Syntactic and morphological change
- Function and grammar in the history of English 133
- The English gerund 173
- Morphological productivity word frequency, and the Oxford English Dictionary 197
-
Syntactic variation
- Syntactization in language development 203
- Choosing between that and it 241
- Inside and outside relative clauses 255
-
Variation in language development
- Addressing new questions about Black children’s language 275
- Structural variability in phonological development 301
- The development of syntactic complexity in narrative, informative and argumentative discourse 333
-
Controversies and methods in the study of linguistic variation
- Some problems in defining syntactic variables 351
- A closer look at some so-called variable processes 367
- Some approaches to syntactic variation 381
- A versatile program for the analysis of sociolinguistic data 395
- The care and handling of a mega-corpus 411