Table of contents
Dedicatory prefacev
Lemmatization — the case of ‘Catalpa’1
Marking and frequency in the english verb11
Complements and humours29
Problems in dyirbal dialectology43
The phonological representation of the welsh mutations75
Has every sentence a theme and a rheme?97
Isophones or isographs? A problem in historical dialectology117
The de-automization of meaning: from Priestley’s ‘An inspector calls’129
Rhymes and reasons, the practice of two poets169
two geminate consonants in old english?187
Borrow, calgue and switch: The law of the english frontier203
The stylistic analysis of poetic texts: Owen’s ‘Futility’ and Davie’s ‘the garden party’239
Old english Man ‘One’: two notes277
Simplifying the grammar of english285
Verbal aspect: a slavonic-english comparison307
Communicative needs in the learning and use of english321
Supplementing corpus elicitation379
Latin for old english in anglo-saxon manuscripts395
Wh- and Yes/no questions: Charles butler’s grammar (1633) and the history of a linguistic concept401
Some aspects of the history of the Be+ing construction427
A note on the indefinite article475
Written language as a heterogeneous system485
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