A Survey of Modern English - Hardcover

Gramley, Stephan; Pätzold, Kurt-Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415300347 ISBN 13: 9780415300346

Publisher: Routledge, 2003

Synopsis

Fully revised and updated, the second edition of this authoritative guide is a comprehensive, scholarly and systematic review of modern English. In one volume the book presents a description of both the linguistic structure of present-day English and its geographical, social, gender, and ethnic variations.
Covering new developments such as the impact of email on language and corpus-based grammars, this accessible text has been extensively rewritten and brings the survey of modern English right up to date. It also offers new examples and suggestions for further reading.

About this title

About the Author:

Steve Gramley and Kurt Michael Patzold are both senior lecturers in the Facluty of Linguistics and Literature at the University of Bielefeld, Gemany. Steve is an American and teaches Foreign Language, American Studies and English Linguistics in English.

Review:

"The detailed, expansive, and well-researched material included in this book makes it a valuable resource to instructors and students of the history of the English language." -- Studies in Second Language Aquisition

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0415300347
• ISBN 13: 9780415300346
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 416