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By comparing linguistic varieties that are quite similar overall, linguists can often determine where and how grammatical systems differ, and how they change over time. Micro-Syntactic Variation in North American English provides a systematic look at minimal differences in the syntax of varieties of English spoken in North America. The book makes available for the first time a range of data on unfamiliar constructions drawn from several regional and social dialects, data whose distribution and grammatical properties shed light on the varieties under examination and on the properties of English syntax more generally. The nine contributions collected in this volume fall under a number of overlapping topics: variation in the expression of negation and modality (the

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Book category Books in English Language linguistics Grammar, syntax & morphology

• Full title: Micro-Syntactic Variation in North American English
• Author: Raffaella Zanuttini, Laurence Horn
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 378
• EAN: 9780199367221
• ID: 04532323
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Weight: 762 g
• Dimensions: 236 × 162 × 29 mm
• Date of publishing: 24. July 2014

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