Download or read book Speaking Canadian English written by Mark M. Orkin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do English-speaking Canadians sound like and why? Can you tell the difference between a Canadian and an American? A Canadian and an Englishman? If so, how? Linguistically speaking is Canada a colony of Britain or a satellite of the United States? Is there a Canadian language? Speaking Canadian English, first published in 1971, in a non-technical way, describes English as it is spoken in Canada – its vocabulary, pronunciation, syntax, grammar, spelling, slang. This title comments on the history of Canadian English – how it came to sound the way it does – and attempts to predict what will happen to it in the future. This book will be of interest to students of linguistics.
Download or read book Alphabet of First Things in Canada written by George Johnson and published by Mortimer Company. This book was released on 1897 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New dialect Formation in Canada written by Stefan Dollinger and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book details the development of eleven modal auxiliaries in late 18th- and 19th-century Canadian English in a framework of new-dialect formation. The study assesses features of the modal auxiliaries, tracing influences to British and American input varieties, parallel developments, or Canadian innovations. The findings are based on the "Corpus of Early Ontario English," "pre-Confederation Section, "the first electronic corpus of early Canadian English. The data, which are drawn from newspapers, diaries and letters, include original transcriptions from manuscript sources and texts from semi-literate writers. While the overall results are generally coherent with new-dialect formation theory, the Ontarian context suggests a number of adaptations to the current model. In addition to its general Late Modern English focus, "New-Dialect Formation in Canada" traces changes in epistemic modal functions up to the present day, offering answers to the loss of root uses in the central modals. By comparing Canadian with British and American data, important theoretical insights on the origins of the variety are gained. The study offers a sociohistorical perspective on a still understudied variety of North American English by combining language-internal features with settlement history in this first monograph-length, diachronic treatment of Canadian English in real time.
Download or read book William Wye Smith written by Scott A. McLean and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2008-11-10 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries emphasized the virtues of early rural pioneers and life on the land as a general criticism of what they perceived to be the negative, alienating influence of Ontario’s rapid urban and industrial expansion. Such work often highlighted the difficulties the recent emigrant faced: the clearing of forest and the breaking of new ground, the isolation and long Canadian winters; however they in turn celebrated the progress demonstrated in the pioneer’s domination over nature, the establishment of thriving communities and the extension of transportation networks. William Wye Smith, a popular nineteenth century Upper Canadian poet, was no exception. Smith prepared his Canadian Reminiscences, a hand-written compilation of anecdotes collected during his lifetime that relate to his experience as journalist, clergyman and son of Scottish settlers, to provide his own unique perspective of pioneer life. This fully annotated version of Smith’s unpublished manuscript highlights Smith’s unwitting testimony to the social life of the province, his relationship to the construction and maintenance of Scottish and Canadian identity, as well as his position in literary history.
Download or read book Letter Writing and Language Change written by Anita Auer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws on a range of informal letter corpora and outlines the historical sociolinguistic value of letter analysis.
Download or read book Papers and Records written by Ontario Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Canadian Catalogue of Books written by Willet Ricketson Haight and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Documentary History of Education in Upper Canada 1846 written by Ontario. Department of Education and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Documentary History of Education in Upper Canada from the Passing of the Constitutional Act of 1791 to the Close of Dr Ryerson s Administration of the Education Department in 1876 1846 written by John George Hodgins and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Of Varying Language and Opposing Creed written by Javier Pérez-Guerra and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume includes a selection of fifteen papers delivered at the Second International Conference on Late Modern English. The chapters focus on significant linguistic aspects of the Late Modern English period, not only on grammatical issues such as the development of pragmatic markers, for-to infinitive constructions, verbal subcategorisation, progressive aspect, sentential complements, double comparative forms or auxiliary/negator cliticisation but also on pronunciation, dialectal variation and other practical aspects such as corpus compilation, which are approached from different perspectives (descriptive, cognitive, syntactic, corpus-driven).
Download or read book Documentary History of Education in Upper Canada written by Ontario. Department of Education and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Annotated Bibliography of Nineteenth century Grammars of English written by Manfred Görlach and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 19th century, education became accessible to much wider circles of society in a great number and variety of schools and the teaching of grammar came to be obligatory from 1870/72 with the advent of general education. Whereas these general trends of the 19th century are well-known to scholars working in different disciplines of social history, and the history of education in particular, it is still true that major sections of the evidence are largely uncollected. This is especially so for school books: there is virtually a gap between the 18th century and the present grammatical tradition. This bibliography lists some 1930 works on English grammar published in the 19th century, mainly in Britain and the US, half of which are accompanied by short descriptions of their physical make-up, content and affiliation.
Download or read book Upper Canadian Imprints 1801 1841 written by Patricia Fleming and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive analytical bibliography covers books, pamphlets, government publications, and serials as well as broadsides and other printed ephemera. Continues Marie Tremaine's bibliography and supplements that work with new and previously unlocated imprints. An impressive work of outstanding scholarship. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Ontario History written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 29- include the society's Report, 1931/32- except 1938/39-1939/40 which were issued separately.
Download or read book The School Book Question written by Egerton Ryerson and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Bibliography of Canadiana written by Toronto Public Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guide to Microforms in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 1418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
