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Theoretical Syntax 19801990

An annotated and classified bibliography

By: Rosemarie Whitney Ostler

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Theoretical Syntax 19801990

An annotated and classified bibliography

By: Rosemarie Whitney Ostler

This volume is intended to be used by practicing scholars as well as students. It represents all major and some of the minor trends that have evolved during the past decade. Book titles from all available sources have been included, as well as periodical articles from the major journals, whenever there was evidence of a theoretical approach. To ensure maximum accessibility of the entries listed, books and articles in language other than English and unpublished dissertations and working papers have been excluded. All entries are fully annotated and the volume is completed by indices of authors and subjects.

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202

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John Benjamins Publishing

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9027277370

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9789027277374

Founding Grammars

How Early America's War Over Words Shaped Today's Language

By: Rosemarie Ostler

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Founding Grammars

How Early America's War Over Words Shaped Today's Language

By: Rosemarie Ostler

Standard grammar and accurate spelling are widely considered hallmarks of a good education, but their exact definitions are much more contentious -- capable of inciting a full-blown grammar war at the splice of a comma, battles readily visible in the media and online in the comments of blogs and chat rooms. With an accessible and enthusiastic journalistic approach, Ostler considers these grammatical shibboleths, tracing current debates back to America's earliest days, an era when most families owned only two books -- the Bible and a grammar primer. Along the way, she investigates colorful historical characters on both sides of the grammar debate in her efforts to unmask the origins of contemporary speech." --

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320

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Macmillan

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1250046122

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9781250046123

Splendiferous Speech

How Early Americans Pioneered Their Own Brand of English

By: Rosemarie Ostler

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Splendiferous Speech

How Early Americans Pioneered Their Own Brand of English

By: Rosemarie Ostler

What does it mean to talk like an American? According to John Russell Bartlett's 1848 Dictionary of Americanisms, it means indulging in outlandish slang—splendiferous, scrumptious, higgeldy piggedly—and free-and-easy word creation—demoralize, lengthy, gerrymander. American English is more than just vocabulary, though. It's a picturesque way of talking that includes expressions like go the whole hog, and the wild boasts of frontiersman Davy Crockett, who claimed to be "half horse, half alligator, and a touch of the airthquake." Splendiferous Speech explores the main sources of the American vernacular—the expanding western frontier, the bumptious world of politics, and the sensation-filled pages of popular nineteenth-century newspapers. It's a process that started with the earliest English colonists (first word adoption—the Algonquian raccoon) and is still going strong today. Author Rosemarie Ostler takes readers along on the journey as Americans learn to declare linguistic independence and embrace their own brand of speech. For anyone who wonders how we got from the English of King James to the slang of the Internet, it's an exhilarating ride.

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157

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Chicago Review Press

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0912777079

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9780912777078

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