Focus on Canada

Although varieties of North American English have come in for a good deal of linguistic scrutiny in recent years, the vast majority of published works have dealt with American rather than Canadian English. This volume constitutes a welcome addition to our linguistic knowledge of English-speaking Canada. While the focus of the volume is primarily synchronic, several of the dozen papers it contains offer a diachronic perspective on Canadian English...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556194420
• ISBN13: 9781556194429
• Release Date: November 1993
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 302 Pages