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Acceptability in Language /

Acceptability in Language / ed. by Sidney Greenbaum. - Reprint 2015 - 1 online resource (213 p.) : Zahlr. Abb. - Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] , 17 1861-0676 ; .

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Acceptability of English as a Second Language in Nigeria -- 3. Some Problems of Acceptability and Grammaticality in Pidgins and Creoles -- 4. Acceptability in Context -- 5. Sociolinguistic Reflections on Acceptability -- 6. You say what you are: Acceptability and Gender-related Language -- 7. Grammaticality, Paraphrase and Imagery -- 8. Prejudice and Pride: Linguistic Acceptability in South Carolina -- 9. Acceptability Testing and Fuzzy Grammar -- 10. Acceptability in a Revived Language -- 11. On the Secondary Nature of Syntactic Intuitions -- 12. The Use of ought in Teenage English -- 13. Variation, Acceptability and the Advanced Foreign Learner: Towards a Sociolinguistics without a Social Context

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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

9789027976239 9783110806656

10.1515/9783110806656 doi


Acceptability (Linguistics).
Grammaticality (Linguistics).
Language and languages -- Variation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.

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