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Maltese English
(2012)
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Lisa Bonnici
Michaela Hilbert
Manfred Krug
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Theory Meets Empiricism: English Lexis in John Wilkins' Philosophical Language and the Role of William Lloyd
(2012)
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Gabriele Knappe
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'That's a real Jersey one, eh?' Discourse marker eh in Channel Island English
(2012)
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Anna Rosen
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Progressives in Maltese English: A comparison with spoken and written text types of British and American English
(2012)
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Michaela Hilbert
Manfred Krug
- In investigating progressives in Maltese English we use data from a sub-sample of ICE-Malta and parallel British and American texts, as well as questionnaires
from these countries. Progressives in written Maltese English, with one exception, broadly follow the British exonormative standard. However, substantial differences
are evident in spoken texts, including the extension of progressives to stative
verbs. But the differences cannot generally be explained in terms of overuse and extension. Our data confirm previous comparative studies in that the use of progressives also in Maltese English is subject to text type and formality
considerations. Two additional important factors are language contact (e.g. the
existence of parallel constructions and imperfectives in Maltese) and language-internal constraints (e.g. a cline between dynamic and stative verbs).
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Early Modern English: The Great Vowel Shift
(2012)
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Manfred Krug
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Early Modern English: Phonology
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Julia Schlüter
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Linguistic Levels: Idioms and fixed expressions
(2012)
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Gabriele Knappe
- In order to establish a framework of reference for an approach to historical English phraseology,
a brief discussion of the concept and scope of phraseology and phraseological
scholarship is provided in Section 2. On this basis, Section 3 approaches historical phraseology
in two consecutive steps – always paying special regard to English: a brief overview
of the state of historical phraseology leads to major approaches, which establish the main procedure in Sections 4 to 6. In Section 4, the role of metalinguistic sources for historical
phraseology is pointed out, especially with relation to the identification of phraseological units in historical texts. Theories of the origin, rise, and kinds of change of phraseological units as well as the employment of English phraseological units in literary texts are the subjects of Section 5. While Section 5 is thus concerned with change in the phraseological system over time, Section 6, vice versa, finishes off the article with an outlook on the influence of frequent word combinations and phraseology on language
change in a broader perspective.