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The Diachronic Development of Agency Prepositions in Old and Middle English 中古英语中代理介词的异时发展

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Journal of English Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-12-15 DOI: 10.1177/00754242231209430

A. Cichosz, Sylwia Karasińska

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“But I Hate Him Just the Same”: On the Rise of Concessive Markers with Same “但我还是恨他”:同一性让步标记的兴起

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Journal of English Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-11-10 DOI: 10.1177/00754242231199096

Elizabeth Closs Traugott

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Semantic Integration in It-Clefts: A Multifactorial Exploration of Agreement Variability in World Englishes it -裂隙中的语义整合:世界英语一致性变异的多因素探索

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Journal of English Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-11-06 DOI: 10.1177/00754242231200460

Ming Yue, Yi Zhang

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Interview with Rajend Mesthrie 采访拉金德-梅斯里

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Journal of English Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-11-06 DOI: 10.1177/00754242231201671

Claire Cowie

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Not Just Contrastive: Constructions with Negated Restrictives in English 不只是对比:英语中带有否定限制语的结构

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Journal of English Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-11-06 DOI: 10.1177/00754242231195369

Olli O. Silvennoinen

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Book Review: Middle Class African American English 书评:中产阶级非裔美国人英语

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Journal of English Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-11-05 DOI: 10.1177/00754242231197678

Minnie Quartey

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Book Review: English with an Accent 书评:带口音的英语

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Journal of English Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-11-05 DOI: 10.1177/00754242231197680

Shawna Shapiro

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Book Reviews: Sociophonetics 书评:社会语音学

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Journal of English Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-07-25 DOI: 10.1177/00754242231186175

P. Foulkes

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Book Reviews: Transgender Identities in the Press: A Corpus-based Discourse Analysis 书评：基于语料库的语篇分析

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Journal of English Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-07-17 DOI: 10.1177/00754242231186179

E. Hazenberg

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Hedged Performatives in Spoken American English: A Discourse-oriented Analysis 美国口语中的模糊修辞格:语篇分析

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Journal of English Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-06-09 DOI: 10.1177/00754242231173419

I. Depraetere, Gunther Kaltenböck

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