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Peer reviewedBall, Catherine N. – Language Variation and Change, 1996
Focuses on factors governing the choice of relative markers in restrictive relative clauses with relativized subjects from the 16th century to the present, using spoken and written data and including non-standard and regional varieties. The study addresses claims by Romaine (1982) that the "wh"-strategy has not affected spoken English,…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Diachronic Linguistics, English, Language Variation
