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Variation and Diachrony, With Early American English in Focus

Paperback • 1991 • English

Variation and Diachrony, With Early American English in Focus

By Merja Kyto

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This study of diachronic variation addresses two topics, the development of modal auxiliaries can (could), may (might), shall (should) and will (would), and the emergence of early American English as a new variety in the seventeenth century. Within the framework of socio-historical variation analysis, the author aims at accounting for diachronic change by examining the interplay of various linguistic and extra-linguistic factors in the light of evidence drawn from various corpora. The study conc...Show more

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ISBN

9783631439081

Publisher

Peter Lang GmbH

Published year

1991

Language

English

Original title

Variation and Diachrony, With Early American English in Focus

Format

Paperback

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