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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2025

Edited by
Sven Leuckert  and
Teresa Pham
Sven Leuckert
Affiliation:
Technische Universität Dresden
Teresa Pham
Affiliation:
Universität Vechta

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Non-Canonical English Syntax
Concepts, Methods, and Approaches
 , pp. vii - viii
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025
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Contents

  1. List of Figures

  2. List of Tables

  3. List of Contributors

  4. Acknowledgements

  5. 1.Introduction: New Perspectives on Non-Canonical English Syntax

    Teresa Pham and Sven Leuckert

  6. 2.Talking about (Non-)Canonicity: A Study of Linguistic Terminology

    Sven Leuckert and Sofia Rüdiger

  7. Part I:Non-Canonical Syntax in Historical Varieties of English

    1. 3.Introduction: Trying to Hit a Moving Target: (Non-)Canonical Word Order in the History of English

      Marianne Hundt

    2. 4.Full-Verb Inversion in the History of English: Continuation or Emergence of a Non-Canonical Word Order?

      Gea Dreschler

    3. 5.There’s thieves in the house: Existential there-Constructions in Late Modern English

      Claudia Lange

    4. 6.’Tis goodly language this, what would it mean? Demonstrative ProTags in the History of English

      Louise Mycock and Sharon Glaas

  8. Part II:Non-Canonical Syntax in Register-Based Varieties of English

    1. 7.Introduction: Different Ways of Saying Different Things: Non-Canonical Syntax in Registers of English

      Heidrun Dorgeloh and Anja Wanner

    2. 8.The President wide awake at 3:14 AM tweeting about CNN: Informational Non-Canonical Reduced Structures in TV News Broadcasts

      Douglas Biber, Stacey Wizner, and Randi Reppen

    3. 9.What was it about it that you loved? Clefts in Evaluative Language

      Teresa Pham

    4. 10.Cognitive Complexity and Non-Canonicity: Zooming in on Particle Placement

      Christine Günther

  9. Part III:Non-Canonical Syntax in Non-Native Varieties of English

    1. 11.Introduction: Multicultural Communicative Situations: Non-Canonical Syntax in Non-Native Englishes

      Devyani Sharma

    2. 12.Non-Canonical Syntax in South Asian Varieties of English: A Corpus-Based Study on the Introductory-it Pattern

      Sandra Götz and Kathrin Kircili

    3. 13.Adverbial Fronting Phenomena in German Learner Language: A Corpus-Based Study

      Kathrin Kircili

    4. 14.Non-Canonical Syntax in English as a Lingua Franca: Minus-Plurals between Language Contact and Emergent Grammar

      Theresa Neumaier and Sven Leuckert

    5. 15.Synopsis: Concepts, Approaches, and Methods in Non-Canonical Syntax

      Sven Leuckert and Teresa Pham

  10. List of Electronic Resources

  11. Index

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  • Book: Non-Canonical English Syntax
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