The English languages

Hundreds of millions of people use English every day everywhere in the world, but may or may not succeed in understanding each other. Despite the success of its standard form (or forms) in many countries, the complex called 'English' is immensely diverse - probably more diverse than any si...

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Autor principal: McArthur, Tom (-)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press 2000
Edición:1st ed., reprint
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  • Introduction 1. Organized Babel 2. A universal resource 3. Cracks in the academic monolith 4. Models of English 5. Standardness 6. Scots and Southron 7. Substrates and supersubstrates 8. The Latin analogy 9. The shapes of English Index.