This volume represents the wide-ranging linguistic interests of the late Barbara Strang, Professor of English Language at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1964-82.
| ISBN | 0415003105 | | DEWEY edition | DC19 | | ISBN13 | 9780415003100
(What's this?) | | Pages | 350 | | Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd | | Weight (grammes) | 460 | | Imprint | Routledge | | Published in | London | | Format | Hardback | | Height (mm) | 220 | | Publication date | 01 Dec 1988 | | Width (mm) | 140 | | Library of Congress | PE26.S76H5 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly | | DEWEY | 420 | |
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Part 1 Old to Middle English period; the difficulty of establishing borrowings between Old English and the Continental West Germanic languages, E.G. Stanley; Wulf revisited: the problem of runic signatures, Roger Lass; Snuck: the development of irregular Preterite forms, Richard Hogg; ambiguity on two levels: a study in negation in Chaucer, Sonia Baghdikian; goodbye to all "that": the history and present behaviour of optional "that", Joan Beal; the rise of the "for NP to V" construction: an explanation, Olga Fischer; negation in Shakespeare, N.F. Blake; Englishmen and their moods: Renaissance grammar and the English verb, John Reed. Part 2 Middle to modern period; the great vowel-shift and other vowel-shifts, John Frankis; thematic genetives, Noel Osselton; the discourse properties of the criminal statute, Michael Hoey; varietas delectat: forms and functions of English world-wide; "talking proper": schooling and the establishment of English "received pronunciation", John Honey; the methods of urban linguistic surveys, Graham Nixon; a bibliography of Barbara Strang, Richard Bailey.
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