Author: RAMSON, W. S.
Title: Australian English. An Historical Study of the Vocabulary 1788-1898.
Description: First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. x, 195; select bibliography, general index, bound in original grey cloth, dustjacket, very good copy. Canberra; Australian National University Press; 1966. The author argues that Australian English is neither barbarous nor uniquely national; basically it is Standard English, its extensions occasioned by a new environment but fed by the settlers' existing vocabulary and controlled by their link with the mother country.
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Title: Australian English. An Historical Study of the Vocabulary 1788-1898.
Description: First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. x, 195; select bibliography, general index, bound in original grey cloth, dustjacket, very good copy. Canberra; Australian National University Press; 1966. The author argues that Australian English is neither barbarous nor uniquely national; basically it is Standard English, its extensions occasioned by a new environment but fed by the settlers' existing vocabulary and controlled by their link with the mother country.
Keywords: gea Books on books Australian Literature language vocabulary general history boo
Price: AUD 40.00 = appr. US$ 27.67 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 118395
- Book number: 118395