Description
Summary: | New Zealand English (NZE) is one of the younger post-colonial varieties of English. It is therefore not surprising that previous research focused on lexical and phonological aspects of NZE and practically neglected grammatical peculiarities. New Zealand English Grammar - Fact or Fiction? presents a careful comparative analysis of parallel corpora of New Zealand, British, American and Australian English in order to single out morphological, syntactic and lexico-grammatical features typical of an emerging New Zealand standard. In addition to corpus data on regional variation, the author uses dat.
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 212 pages) : illustrations. |
Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-158) and index. |
ISBN: | 9789027275554 9027275556 |
ISSN: | 0172-7362 ; |
Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. |
Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
Action Note: | digitized |