Regional Variation in Written American English |
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Author:
| Grieve, Jack |
Series title: | Studies in English Language Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-1-139-50613-7 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2016 |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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Book Format: | Digital download and online |
List Price: | AUD $200.00 |
Book Description:
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Taking a corpus-based approach, this innovative and groundbreaking text maps regional grammatical variation in written American English. A statistical analysis of these maps demonstrates for the first time that regional variation exists in written Standard American English, and identifies modern American dialect regions.
Taking a corpus-based approach, this innovative and groundbreaking text maps regional grammatical variation in written American English. A statistical analysis of these maps demonstrates for the first time that regional variation exists in written Standard American English, and identifies modern American dialect regions.