Lieselotte Anderwald: 2 books
Language Between Description and Prescription
Verbs and Verb Categories in Nineteenth-Century Grammars of English
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Language Between Description and Prescription is an empirical, quantitative and qualitative study of nineteenth-century English grammar writing, and of nineteenth-century language change. Based on 258 grammar books from Britain and North America, the book investigates whether grammar writers of the...
Negation in Non-Standard British English
Gaps, Regularizations and Asymmetries
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2003
Despite the advances of radio and television and increasing mobility and urbanization, spoken English is by no means becoming more like the written standard. English dialect grammar, however, is still a new and relatively undeveloped area of research, and most studies to date are either restricted...