By Kingsley Amis
"The King's English" is Kingsley Amis' authoritative and witty consultant to the use and abuse of the English language. an epidemic of illiteracy and a thorn within the part of pretension, Amis offers necessary recommendation concerning the linguistic error and barbarities that lie in stay up for us, from danglers, four-letter phrases to jargon or even Welsh rarebit. in case you have ever questioned even if it's appropriate to begin a sentence with 'and', to boldly break up an infinitive, or to go your sevens within the French type, Amis has the reply - or a trenchant opinion. via turns reflective, acerbic and provocative, "The King's English" is for someone who cares approximately how the English language is used.
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Coda-Constraint triggers nonparsing of coda r while Final-C ensures insertion and preservation of r in word-final position. (7) Coda»Final-C Candidates CODA → Wanda left → Home
A n analogous differentiati Morris dancers needn 't jump; Morris dancers don 't need to jump). e. A > A / B (> B ) ; see Hopper and Traugott (1991: 116-120). The case of wotte is quite different, however. Its particular transition looks something like this: A > A / B > A / B / C (where A and are different lexical items). It is not the case that the lexical verb wotte has always been around, and is simply strengthening its position by innovating morphosyntactic properties expected of an ordinary lexical verb (as was the case with con for example).
Them men's been very good to me b. us that's done so much for him I've done Mcintosh (1983: 237-239) observes that this tendency was also present in the northern dialects of Middle English (north of the Chester-Wash line) although, at that time, it was only the plural forms which were affected. 7 Note that the constructions in (5b) and (6b) are now used in colloquial standard English (David Denison, personal communication). 6 A SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT HIERARCHY 39 (6) a. the coals isn't done yet b.
