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Studies in English Language Series

72 primary works • 72 total works
The aim of this series is to provide a framework for original studies of English, both present-day and past. All books are based securely on empirical research, and represent theoretical and descriptive contributions to our knowledge of national and international varieties of English, both written and spoken. The series covers a broad range of topi…
Transforming Early English: The Reinvention of Early English and Older Scots
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    Binomials in the History of English: Fixed and Flexible
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    Binomials, such as for and against, dead or alive,…

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    Spontaneous Spoken English: An Integrated Approach to the Emergent Grammar of Speech
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    A new, thought-provoking book on the theory of gra…

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    The Changing English Language: Psycholinguistic Perspectives
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    Bringing together experts from both historical lin…

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    Developments in English: Expanding Electronic Evidence
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    Addresses current issues in corpus linguistics - m…

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    Noun Phrase Complexity in English
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    This book explores noun phrase (NP) complexity in …

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    The Culture of Singapore English
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    This book provides a fresh approach to Singapore E…

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    English in the German-Speaking World
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    English has a considerable history in Germany, Aus…

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    English in Multilingual South Africa: The Linguistics of Contact and Change
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    South Africa is a country characterised by great l…

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    Variation in English Worldwide: Registers and Global Varieties
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    World Englishes is one of the most active fields o…

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    Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax
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    A pioneering collection of new research that explo…

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    Listening to the Past: Audio Records of Accents of English
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    Audio recordings of English are available from the…

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    English Comparative Correlatives: Diachronic and Synchronic Variation at the Lexicon-Syntax Interface
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    One of the most intriguing features of languages i…

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    Grammar, Rhetoric and Usage in English: Preposition Placement 1500–1900
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    The preposition is of particular interest to synta…

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    Grammatical Complexity in Academic English: Linguistic Change in Writing
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    Grammatical Complexity in Academic English uses co…

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    Letter Writing and Language Change
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    Regional Variation in Written American English
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    The first study of its kind, Regional Variation in…

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    Mexican American English: Substrate Influence and the Birth of an Ethnolect
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    The English Phrasal Verb, 1650–Present: History, Stylistic Drifts, and Lexicalisation
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    Further Studies in the Lesser-Known Varieties of English
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    This volume follows on from The Lesser-Known Varie…

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    Long-Vowel Shifts in English, c.1050–1700: Evidence from Spelling
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    The English language has undergone many sound chan…

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    Russian English: History, Functions, and Features
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    English and Empire: Literary History, Dialect, and the Digital Archive
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    English Compounds and their Spelling
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    Negation in Early English: Grammatical and Functional Change
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    Late Modern English Syntax
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    The Late Modern period is the first in the history…

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    Parentheticals in Spoken English: The Syntax-Prosody Relation
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    Taking both an empirical and a theoretical view of…

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    Signalling Nouns in English: A Corpus-Based Discourse Approach
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    Signalling nouns (SNs) are abstract nouns like 'fa…

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    English in the Caribbean
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    This book presents an in-depth study of English as…

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    Narrative in English Conversation
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    Storytelling is a fundamental mode of everyday int…

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    Constructional Change in English: Developments in Allomorphy, Word Formation, and Syntax
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    Martin Hilpert combines construction grammar and a…

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    English as a Contact Language
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    Recent developments in contact linguistics suggest…

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    Singapore English
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    In recent years the study of English and its globa…

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    The Verb Phrase in English: Investigating Recent Language Change with Corpora
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    The chapters in this volume feature new and ground…

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    Antonyms in English: Construals, Constructions and Canonicity
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    The study of antonyms (or 'opposites') in a langua…

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    From Philology to English Studies: Language and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
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    The study of English language and literature in Br…

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    Grammatical Variation in British English Dialects: A Study in Corpus-Based Dialectometry
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    Variation within the English language is a vast re…

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    Standards of English: Codified Varieties around the World
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    The notion of a 'standard' variety of English has …

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    Interactions across Englishes: Linguistic Choices in Local and International Contact Situations
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    English is a language at the centre of research in…

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    Communicating Early English Manuscripts
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    In an obvious way, manuscripts communicate. This i…

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    Adjunct Adverbials in English
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    In this original study, Hilde Hasselgård discusses…

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    Preposition Placement in English: A Usage-based Approach
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    Preposition placement, the competition between pre…

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    Early Modern English Dialogues: Spoken Interaction as Writing
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    Language is largely comprised of face-to-face spok…

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    The English Language in Canada: Status, History and Comparative Analysis
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    The English Language in Canada examines the curren…

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    Eighteenth-Century English: Ideology and Change
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    The eighteenth century was a key period in the dev…

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    Hyperbole in English: A Corpus-based Study of Exaggeration
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    Non-literal language is ubiquitous in everyday lif…

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    Medical Writing in Early Modern English
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    Medical writing tells us a great deal about how th…

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    Premodifiers in English: Their Structure and Significance
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    The order and behaviour of the premodifier (an adj…

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    Quoting Speech in Early English
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    Before quotation marks became widespread conventio…

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    Change in Contemporary English: A Grammatical Study
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    Based on the systematic analysis of large amounts …

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    The Morphology of English Dialects: Verb-Formation in Non-standard English
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    Where do dialects differ from Standard English, an…

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    The Comment Clause in English: Syntactic Origins and Pragmatic Development
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    Although English comment clauses such as I think a…

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    Irish English: History and Present-Day Forms
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    English has been spoken in Ireland for over 800 ye…

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    Legacies of Colonial English: Studies in Transported Dialects
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    This collection brings together internationally-re…

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    English in the Southern United States
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    The English of the Southern United States is possi…

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    One Language, Two Grammars? Differences Between British and American English
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    It is well known that British and American English…

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    Fighter Pilots of World War I
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    The story of fifteen flying aces from the Great Wa…

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    The Lesser-Known Varieties of English: An Introduction
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    This is the first ever volume to compile socioling…

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    Gender Shifts in the History of English
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    Based on extensive research, Anne Curzan's study m…

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    Nineteenth-Century English: Stability and Change
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    This volume of Studies in English Language focuses…

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    Twentieth-Century English: History, Variation and Standardization
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    Standard English has evolved and developed in many…

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    Infinitival Complement Clauses in English: A Study of Syntax in Discourse
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    This study, the first in the series Studies in Eng…

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    Medical and Scientific Writing in Late Medieval English
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    The late Middle Ages in England saw a flowering of…

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    New Zealand English
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    This book is a comprehensive but accessible descri…

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    Apposition in Contemporary English
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    Apposition in Contemporary English is the first fu…

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    Functional Sentence Perspective in Written and Spoken Communication
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    The Prague School theory of functional sentence pe…

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    Chinese Englishes: A Sociolinguistic History
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    Kingsley Bolton uses early word lists, satirical c…

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    Cognitive Space and Linguistic Case: Semantic and Syntactic Categories in English
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    This study sheds new light on the complex relation…

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    The Development of Standard English, 1300–1800: Theories, Descriptions, Conflicts
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    This book traces the development of Standard Engli…

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    British or American English?: A Handbook of Word and Grammar Patterns
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    3.70     · 10 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2002 · 10 editions
    Speakers of British and American English display s…

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    Personal Pronouns in Present-Day English
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    2.00     · 1 Ratings · published 1996 · 6 editions
    This is the first comprehensive book-length analys…

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    English Corpus Linguistics: An Introduction
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    This step-by-step guide to creating and analyzing …

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