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Taming the Vernacular: From Dialect to Written Standard Language

Jenny Cheshire, Dieter Stein - Dialectology - 1997 - 286 pages
This text examines the differences between standard and nonstandard (or colloquial) varieties of Dutch, French, English, Finnish, Galician, German and Spanish. It looks at ...
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A Changing World of Words: Studies in English Historical ..., Volume 141

Javier E. Díaz Vera - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2002 - 636 pages
From the contents: Maurizio GOTTI: The origin of 17th century canting terms. - Anne MCDERMOTT: Early dictionaries of English and historical corpora: in search of hard words ...
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A Poetics Handbook: Verbal Art in the European Tradition

Daniel Mario Abondolo - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 332 pages
Most books in English on poetics deal with abstract and theoretical issues, with a few , mostly English, examples, whereas this book focuses on the formal, aiming to provide a ...
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