Australian English grammar There are even fewer collectible monographs on the grammar of Australian English than there are on pronunciation. Although Horvath’s Variation in Australian English touches on grammar at some points, the only book that focuses down on an area of Australian English grammar is the 1976 published version of a doctoral thesis from … Continue reading AUSTRALIAN ENGLISH: A NEGLECTED AREA OF AUSTRALIANA COLLECTING? PART 3
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Perhaps of more interest to the collector than the general dictionaries are the dictionaries of Australian slang, colloquialisms and vulgarisms. Those compiled by Sidney Baker and the Macquarie University Dictionary Research Centre have already been mentioned earlier, but this sort of work began much earlier than that, as we saw from James Hardy Vaux’s very … Continue reading AUSTRALIAN ENGLISH: A NEGLECTED AREA OF AUSTRALIANA COLLECTING? PART 2
Although I have throughout my university career been a Germanist, with the linguistics of the German language as one of my two main teaching and research areas, I have in fact since I began publishing my research back in the mid-1970s published almost as much on Australian English as I have on German. And when … Continue reading 'AUSTRALIAN ENGLISH: A NEGLECTED AREA OF AUSTRALIANA COLLECTING?' PART 1