Authority in Language: Investigating Language Prescription and StandardisationRoutledge & K. Paul, 1985 - 189 pages |
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... object of an embedded clause beginning with whether ( or potentially with when , where , how etc. ) . If we topicalise house , we get : 16 This is the house that I don't know whether Jack built . This sentence is odd and would certainly ...
... object of an embedded clause beginning with whether ( or potentially with when , where , how etc. ) . If we topicalise house , we get : 16 This is the house that I don't know whether Jack built . This sentence is odd and would certainly ...
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... object in a prepositional phrase . In spoken standard Danish Tag kager hjem med ( ' take cakes home with ' ) is grammatical : in all varieties of English , however , the object of the preposition is supplied , as in ' Take cakes home ...
... object in a prepositional phrase . In spoken standard Danish Tag kager hjem med ( ' take cakes home with ' ) is grammatical : in all varieties of English , however , the object of the preposition is supplied , as in ' Take cakes home ...
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... object in constructing this linear model was to obtain a picture of the linguistic norms of a speech community , not to make a general statement about the range of speech styles in a repertoire . He recognises that a naturalistic study ...
... object in constructing this linear model was to obtain a picture of the linguistic norms of a speech community , not to make a general statement about the range of speech styles in a repertoire . He recognises that a naturalistic study ...
Contents
Standard English and the complaint tradition | 29 |
Spoken and written norms | 54 |
Grammar and speech | 70 |
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