Syntactic Variation and Change in Progress: Loss of the Verbal Coda in Topic-Restricting as Far as Constructions.

Rickford, John.; And Others

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ERIC Number: EJ503206

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1995

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Syntactic Variation and Change in Progress: Loss of the Verbal Coda in Topic-Restricting as Far as Constructions.

Rickford, John.; And Others

Language, v71 n1 p102-31 Mar 1995

This article examines the variable absence of the verb in "as far as" constructions, which serve as qualifiers or topic restrictors in English. (46 references) (Author/CK)

Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computational Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Language Usage, Language Variation, Phrase Structure, Pronouns, Questionnaires, Speech Communication, Tables (Data), Transformational Generative Grammar, Verbs

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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