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The Cambridge History of the English Language Volume 4 Part 2 pptx
...
follows.
The ranking is an average of the four corpuses:
a)
(2)
(3) (4)
BDNE
BDNE2
81W3
BDC
Rank
French
31 .4
17.5
21 .2
12. 0
1
Spanish
6.6
10.8
6.1
12. 7
2
Russian
3 .4 5 .4 2. 1
24 . 1 ...
1.7 4. 2
3.6 6.0 12
Portuguese
1.0 2. 7 1.0 1.8 13
Hindi
2. 2
0.9 0 .2 2 .4 14
Hebrew 0.7 1.5 0 .4 1 .2
15
Sanskrit
1.7 1 .2
0.8
16
Persi...
The Cambridge History of the English Language Volume 4 Part 7 pptx
... at
least
most of
it)
must be clear
of the
front
of the lower teeth: this can only happen if there is lip-rouhd-
ing.
From the remark about the position of the tip of the tongue, it
is
... e.g. his
Primer of
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Table
5 .2.
(cont)
17 64
1781 17 84 17 84 1791 1...
The Cambridge History of the English Language Volume 4 Part 10 pptx
... York: Longman, 27 2—89.
(1991b).
Spoken
language
and the history of ^-periphrasis. In Kastovsky
(1991:
321 - 42 ).
(1993).
Aspects of the development of the
noun
phrase in English. In
Gotti ... Taavitsainen (19 92:
40 1-17).
Poutsma, H.
(19 14 29 ).
A
Grammar
of Late
Modern
English,
(part I) 2nd edn., (part
II)
1
st edn.
Groningen:
Noordhoff....
The cambridge history of the english language volume 3 part 10
... in 1 645 , corrected to concent in 1673.
22 . From The Rule of Reason. Text as in Mueller (19 84: 365).
23 . From section 3 .2. 1 .2 of Anatomy of Melancholy, first published 1 621 . Text of the
16 32 edn, ... Woudhuysen
19 92: 337.
42 . From sonnet 39 of Astrophil and Stella. Text as in (31b), 25 8.
43 . From The Church -history of Britain; from the Birth of Jes...
The Cambridge History of the English Language Volume 1 Part 1 ppt
... of Christianity amongst the Anglo-Saxons,
therefore, were of the highest importance for the history of the
language. From the death of Bede in 735 to the reign of Alfred in the last
quarter of ... 23 1
6.1 Map
of
areas
of
rhotacism
41 2
6 .2 New York City
(r) by
class and style (after Labov 1966)
41 4
6.3 Map
of
early Anglo-Saxon England
41 9...
The Cambridge History of the English Language Volume 1 Part 2 pdf
... aspect
of the diphthongal system is uncertain and subject to fierce debate and
the most controversial of these are discussed in §3.3.3 in the context of
the development of the language.
The situation ... > PDE
sat.
Although the situation is
obscure (for discussion of
the
short vowel see Lass 1976:1 32 4) , in part
at least because of the conservatism of...
The Cambridge History of the English Language Volume 1 Part 3 doc
... observable in Old English, and the
development of the present-day system is something which began at
the very earliest stage of the emergence of English as a separate
language.
3 .4. 1 .2 Adjectives
Adjectives ... ^-declension. The paradigm of cat, then, would be {cat} ~
{cat}
+{sj ~
{cat}
+
{s
2
},
and similarly for
dog
and
church,
by virtue of
their memb...
The Cambridge History of the English Language Volume 1 Part 4 ppsx
... that it is part of the system of English, but also
that
**She has arrivedyesterday
is not (** signals that the pattern is not part
of
the
structure of the language, or at least of
the
variety ... might-be
(Or 2
6.88. 14)
in their fear of the time they might be sunk in the earth (due to an
earthquake).
4. 3 .2. 3 Pre-modals
The set of pre-modals inc...
The Cambridge History of the English Language Volume 1 Part 5 docx
... j
24 24 )
because it (the Mediterranean) washes more violently on the southern
shore than it does on the northern.
Yet again, the verb may be zero as in (23 3), and:
(23 7) ]>one hetolan deofol ... whom
]>e
heo gelyfden
PT they believed
{Bede 3 15 .22 2 .22 )
that they did not want to obey the god in whom they believed.
This type of relativiser occurs in the poetry an...