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Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Test Design -- 3. Informant Accuracy and Homogeneity -- 4. The Operation Test -- 5. The Judgment Test and its Relation to the Operation Test -- 6. Linguistic Grouping of Test Sentences -- 7. The Selection Test -- 8. Conclusion -- Tables -- REFERENCES -- Backmatter

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. PROBLEMS OF CLASSIFICATION -- 3. THE NATURE AND OBJECT OF CLASSIFICATION -- 4. A TAXONOMIC EXPERIMENT: LINGUISTIC TASKS -- 5. AN OUTLINE OF THE TECHNICAL PROCESSES -- 6. PROCEDURAL CHOICES -- 7. THE SIMILARITY MATRIX -- 8. THE DIAGNOSTIC KEY -- 9. CLASSIFICATION OF THE OTUs -- 10. LINGUISTIC ASSESSMENT -- 11. CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX 1: PREDICTIVE POWER -- APPENDIX 2: SOME STATISTICAL C...

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks, as well as studies that provide new insights by approaching language from an interdisciplinary perspective. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various ma...

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF TABLES -- LIST OF FIGURES -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THE VERBAL GROUP -- 3. THE CLAUSE -- 4. VOICE DATA PROCESSING -- 5. PASSIVE CLAUSE CLASSIFICATION: CRITERIA -- 6. PASSIVE CLAUSE CLASSIFICATION: COMPUTATION AND RESULTS -- 7. THE USE OF THE PASSIVE -- 8. CONCLUSIONS -- APPENDICES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

This is the fully revised and expanded second edition of English - One Tongue, Many Voices, a book by three internationally distinguished English language scholars who tell the fascinating, improbable saga of English in time and space. Chapters trace the history of the language from its obscure beginnings over 1500 years ago as a collection of dialects spoken by marauding, illiterate tribes. They show how the geographical spread of the languag...

If you read only one book on the English language-read this one. English - One Tongue, Many Voices covers all aspects of the English language: its global spread, international and local varieties, history from obscurity to primacy, usage and uses, standards and creoles, style and change in progress, politics and controversy. The scope of the book is vast, its depth impressive, and its balance admirable.’ - John Algeo, Professor Emeritus of Eng...