Grammatical and Lexical Variance in EnglishThis volume addresses the two extremes of grammatical and lexical variance. One is at the societal end of linguistic experience and the other concerns the more technical matter of the detailed specific and individual realisations of variation. |
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the global context | 1 |
Variance and the concept of good usage | 10 |
Language varieties and standard language | 21 |
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