From Clerks to Corpora: essays on the English language yesterday and today

Why is the Isle of Dogs in the Thames called Isle of Dogs? Did King Canute’s men bring English usage back to Jutland? How can we find out where English speakers suck their breath in to give a short response? And what did the Brontës do about dialect and think about foreign languages? The answers are...

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Main Authors:	Sundkvist, Peter, Shaw, Philip, Erman, Britt, Melchers, Gunnel
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	Stockholm University Press 2021
Subjects:	corpus linguistics english diachronic linguistics J. R. R. Tolkien thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CB Language: reference and general::CBX Language: history and general works thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFH Phonetics, phonology thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies
Online Access:	530632
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