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Yes, you can access The History of English in a Social Context by Dieter Kastovsky, Arthur Mettinger, Dieter Kastovsky,Arthur Mettinger in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Grammar & Punctuation. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Languages & Linguistics

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Languages & Linguistics

Excellent in Shakespeare
Address pronouns in Shakespeare’s English: a re-appraisal in terms of markedness
Gender voices in the spoken interaction of the past: a pilot study based on Early Modern English trial proceedings
Is there a social element in English word-stress? Explorations into a non-categorial treatment of English stress: a long-term view
The modal verb shall between grammar and usage in the nineteenth century
Social relations and forms of address in the Canterbury Tales
Covert and overt language attitudes to the Scots tongue expressed in the Statistical accounts of Scotland
The use of the negative prefix dis- 1520–1620
On the conditioning of geographical and social distance in language variation and change in Renaissance Scots
The influence of political correctness on lexical and grammatical change in late-twentieth-century English
The changing role of London on the linguistic map of Tudor and Stuart England
The rise and regulation of periphrastic do in negative declarative sentences: a sociolinguistic study
Shibboleths galore: the treatment of Irish and Scottish English in histories of the English language
Ethnolinguistic identity as common denominator: a socio-historical investigation of the lexical items for ‘people’ in South African English
Perceived and real differences between men’s and women’s spellings of the early to mid-seventeenth century
Sociohistorical linguistics and the observer’s paradox
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