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Martin, Charles B.; Rulon, Curt M. – 1973
This book is a selected distillation of linguistic scholarship which describes from both a historical (diachronic) and a contemporary (synchronic) viewpoint that conglomerate set of dialects and idiolects called English. The emphasis is on contemporary American English. But foreign language examples are also given in an attempt to demonstrate the…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Grammar, Higher Education
