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- PhD Linguistics University of Pennsylvania
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- Bachelors English University of Pennsylvania
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- Computational analysis of present-day American English (1967) (6958)
- FREQUENCY ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH USAGE: LEXICON AND GRAMMAR (1983) (2208)
- The structure of American English. (1958) (201)
- The Development Of English Aspectual Systems (1988) (195)
- Practical Lexicography: Principles and Methods of Dictionary-Making (1993) (160)
- The London-Lund Corpus of Spoken English: Description and Research (1992) (137)
- Dialectology: An Introduction (1983) (97)
- A Standard Corpus of Edited Present-Day American English (1965) (81)
- Words in time: A Social History of the English Vocabulary (1991) (57)
- Proximity Concord in English (1986) (52)
- Language corpora B.C. (1992) (47)
- Shakespeare's Works and Elizabethan Pronunciation (1983) (39)
- The Book of Vices and Virtues (1968) (38)
- The book of vices and virtues: A fourteenth century English translation of the Somme le roi of Lorens d'Orléans (1987) (33)
- Revolution in grammar (1954) (33)
- 'Heartland English': Variation and Transition in the American Midwest (1995) (31)
- Historical Linguistics 1993 (1997) (24)
- Automating the lexicon : research and practice in a multilingual environment (1997) (24)
- Language Variety in the South (1988) (23)
- The English language: An introduction (1967) (21)
- Linguistic Exploitation of Syntactic Databases: The Use of the Nijmegen Linguistic Database Program (1992) (15)
- Some Dialect Isoglosses in England (1959) (13)
- Word-Making: Some Sources of New Words (1994) (10)
- Graphemic Analysis of Late Middle English Manuscripts (1962) (8)
- Amn’t I, or the hole in the pattern (1984) (7)
- The London-Lund Corpus of Spoken English: Description and research Edited by Jan Svartvik (review) (2015) (7)
- The alchemy of English: The spread, functions, and models of non-native Englishes By Braj B. Kachru (review) (2015) (7)
- CORPUS LINGUISTICS, HARD AND SOFT. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora. (1988) (7)
- The English language,: An introduction; background for writing (1965) (6)
- Beschrijving en interpretare van Lingulstische Frequences: Computational analysis of present-day American English (1968) (4)
- Two Linguists on Freshman English: Pressure from Below. (1964) (4)
- Temporal adverbials in Old and Middle English (1987) (3)
- Chaucer Shortens a Tale (1953) (3)
- Historical English : on the occasion of Karl Brunner's 100th birthday (1990) (3)
- Computer-Produced Representation of Dialectal Variation: Initial Fricatives in Southern British English (1969) (3)
- Our Responsibility to the English Language (1953) (2)
- Otto Jespersen as Grammarian (1989) (2)
- Modal Daren't and Durstn't in Dialectal English (1968) (2)
- The historical and cultural interpretation of dialect (1993) (2)
- Three Elizabethan Pamphlets@@@Taste and Criticism in the Eighteenth Century: A Selection of Texts Illustrating the Evolution of Taste and the Development of Critical Theory (1953) (1)
- The English Major and Liberal Education (1961) (1)
- Modern Rhetorical Doctrine and Recent Developments in Linguistics (1954) (1)
- The history of English (1963) (1)
- A Modified System of Phonemic Transcription for One Idiolect of English (1967) (1)
- Resolution of Structural Ambiguity by Lexical Probability: The English Double Object (1956) (1)
- Language and Linguistics in the English Program. (1964) (1)
- Thomas Whythorne's speech : The phonology of a sixteenth-century native of Somerset in London (1975) (1)
- Chaucer's "Airish Beasts" (1949) (1)
- Theory and practice in corpus linguistics (1991) (1)
- Words in time: A social history of the English vocabulary By Geoffrey Hughes (review) (2015) (1)
- Brno Studies in English (1963) (1)
- The Present State of Grammar (1963) (1)
- International colloquium on automatic dialect mapping: A report (1977) (1)
- A Pilgrim's Progress: From philology to linguistics (1998) (1)
- The Standardization of American English (1986) (1)
- 57. Vaughan’s the Waterfall (1956) (0)
- Frederic G. Cassidy (chief ed.), Dictionary of American regional English . Vol. 1: Introduction and A–C. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1985. Pp. clvi + 903. (1988) (0)
- Arts, Humanities, and Cultural Affairs Act (1976): Correspondence 14 (1985) (0)
- Textbooks Lawrence M. Davis, English dialectology: An introduction . University: University of Alabama, 1983. Pp. xii + 151. (1984) (0)
- Tom McArthur (ed.), The Oxford companion to the English language . Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. Pp. xxix + 1184. (1993) (0)
- The Editor's Department (2015) (0)
- Reviews : History of Linguistics. 2 vols. Edited by Giulio Lepschy. London: Longman, 1994 (1997) (0)
- 40. Wylie’s Hymn to Earth (1959) (0)
- LINGUISTICS AND WRITTEN COMPOSITION (AN ABSTRACT). (1963) (0)
- CC~fl~TER-PRODUCED REPRES~EATION OF DIALECTAL VARIATION: INITIAL FRICATIVES IN SOUTHERN BRITISH ~GLISH (2002) (0)
- Index to Volume 68 (1992) (2015) (0)
- Linguistic exploitation of syntactic databases: The use of the Nijmegen Linguistic Database program By Hans van Halteren and Theo van den HeuVEL (review) (2015) (0)
- A What's What in Dialectology@@@Dialectology: An Introduction (1986) (0)
- Hakluyt's Voyages: An Epic of Discovery (1955) (0)
- Historical English: On the occasion of Karl Brunner's 100th birthday Ed. by Manfred Markus (review) (2015) (0)
- Robert Burchfield (ed.), English in Britain and overseas: Origins and developments . (Cambridge history of the English language, 5.) Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xxiii, 656. Hb $110.00. (1996) (0)
- A Word Geography of England. By Harold Orton and Nathalia Wright. New York: Seminar Press, 1974. Pp. xv + 302. (2016) (0)
- Discourse Conventions in Cross-Cultural Oral Communication. (1984) (0)
- Review Article: Beyond Language, Literature, and Nationalism (2019) (0)
- The standardization of American English By Alfred Bammesberger (review) (2015) (0)
- The state of the language Edited by Christopher Ricks and Leonard Michaels (review) (2015) (0)
- The Little Magazine in Canada, 1925–80: Its Role in the Development of Modernism and Post-Modernism in Canadian Poetry by Ken Norris (review) (2014) (0)
- The structure of American English : workbook (1980) (0)
- Problems of Assembling, Describing, and Computerizing Corpora. Research Techniques and Prospects. Papers in Southwest English, No. 1. (1975) (0)
- 21. More on Proximity Concord (1994) (0)
- The Structure of American English / W. Nelson Framcis (2007) (0)
- The English Language: Whose Responsibility?. (1972) (0)
- Approaches to Grammar (1973) (0)
- Text and Technology: In Honour of John Sinclair (1994) (0)
- More Verbs in -Alize (1982) (0)
- The Structural Grammar of English@@@The Structure of American English (1959) (0)
- The English language: A historical introduction By Charles Barber (review) (2015) (0)
- A Pilgrim's Progress (1998) (0)
- The Original of the Ayenbite of Inwyt (1937) (0)
- The English language By Robert Burchfield (review) (2015) (0)
- New Perspective on Teaching Language (1962) (0)
- J. L. Dillard, Toward a social history of American English . With a chapter on Appalachian English by Linda L. Blanton. (Contributions to the Sociology of Language, 39.) Berlin: Mouton, 1985. Pp. xii + 301. (1987) (0)
- THE LITTLE PRESSES (2009) (0)
- The Editor's Department (2015) (0)
- John M. Kirk, Stewart Sanderson, and J. D. A. Widdowson (eds.), Studies in linguistic geography: The dialects of English in Britain and Ireland . London: Croom Helm, 1985. Pp. xix + 186. (1988) (0)
- Curran, Edward: Confirmation Hearing (1985): Correspondence 14 (1985) (0)
- A Branching Process Analysis of the Stack Algorithm for Variable Channel Conditions (1992) (0)
- Reviews : Speech Past and Present: Studies in English Dialectology in Memory of Ossi Ihalainen. Edited by Juhani Klemola, Merja Kytö, and Matti Rissanen. Bamberger Beiträge zur Englischen Sprachwissenschaft, 38. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1996. xi + 474 (1998) (0)
- 21. Donne’s Goodfriday 1613. Riding Westward (1955) (0)
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