Subject-Operator Disagreement in English Existential Constructions: A Corpus-Based Analysis of American English and Hong Kong English
Attributed to disparate goals as well as tenets of prescriptive grammar and descriptive grammar, disagreement exists between the two in that prescriptive grammar rules may be violated in descriptive grammar; one concrete instance is subject-operator disagreement in English existential constructions....
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| Language: | English |
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KARE Publishing
2020-05-01
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| Series: | Applied Linguistics Research Journal |
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| Online Access: | https://www.journalagent.com/z4/download_fulltext.asp?pdir=alrj&un=ALRJ-36449 |