Phoebe Clapham

List of John Benjamins publications for which Phoebe Clapham plays a role.

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Culpeper, Jonathan and Phoebe Clapham 1996 The Borrowing of Classical and Romance Words into English: A Study Based on the Electronic Oxford English Dictionary International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 1:2, pp. 199–218 | Article
This paper describes a study designed to investigate the effect of Classical and Romance vocabulary on the English lexicon. The study involved a series of computer searches, using the CD-ROM version of the Oxford English Dictionary (1989). Our aim was to discover how many and at what point in time… read more