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Loan verb accommodation: a comparison of Old Norse and French in Middle English 借代动词的容纳：中古英语中古挪威语和法语的比较

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English Language & Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-09-13 DOI: 10.1017/s1360674324000029

W. JULIANE ELTER, MARLIEKE SHAW

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‘When intuitions (don't) fail’: combining syntax and sociolinguistics in the analysis of Scots 当直觉（不）失效时"：结合句法学和社会语言学分析苏格兰语

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English Language & Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-09-13 DOI: 10.1017/s1360674323000679

E JAMIESON, JENNIFER SMITH, DAVID ADGER, CAROLINE HEYCOCK, GARY THOMS

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Morphosyntactic agreement in English: does it help the listener in noise? 英语中的词义一致：它对噪音中的听者有帮助吗？

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English Language & Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-05-03 DOI: 10.1017/s1360674324000066

Marcel Schlechtweg

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An exploratory investigation of functional variation in South Asian online Englishes 对南亚在线英语功能变异的探索性研究

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English Language & Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-04-01 DOI: 10.1017/s1360674324000017

Muhammad Shakir

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A topic which I want to know more about – preposition placement in finite WH-relative clauses in World Englishes 我想进一步了解的一个话题--世界英语中有限WH关系从句中介词的位置

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English Language & Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-03-15 DOI: 10.1017/s1360674323000667

VICTORIA MUẞEMANN

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Rhythm in the Kingdom: a variationist analysis of speech rhythm in Tongan English 王国中的节奏：汤加英语语音节奏的变异分析

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English Language & Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-03-12 DOI: 10.1017/s1360674323000540

DANIELLE TOD

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English comparative modals and their complements 英语比较情态及其补语

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English Language & Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-03-01 DOI: 10.1017/s1360674323000485

JOANNA NYKIEL, JACOB THAISEN

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A social turn for Construction Grammar: double modals on British Twitter 建筑语法的社会转向：英国推特上的双重模态

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English Language & Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-02-27 DOI: 10.1017/s1360674323000576

CAMERON MORIN, GUILLAUME DESAGULIER, JACK GRIEVE

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When to (not) split the infinitive: factors governing patterns of syntactic variation in Twitter-style Philippine English 何时（不）拆分不定式：推特风格菲律宾英语句法变化模式的影响因素

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English Language & Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-02-14 DOI: 10.1017/s1360674323000631

WILKINSON DANIEL WONG GONZALES

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The syntactic status of V-final conjunct clauses in Old English: the role of priming 古英语中 V 结尾连词从句的句法地位：引申的作用

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English Language & Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-12-18 DOI: 10.1017/s1360674323000564

ANNA CICHOSZ

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