Claire Childs

List of John Benjamins publications in which Claire Childs is involved.

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Childs, Claire 2016  Canny good , or quite canny ? The semantic-syntactic distribution of canny in the North East of England English World-Wide 37:3, pp. 238–266 | Article
The word canny has long been associated with the dialects of the North East of England, most typically in its adjectival sense. However, it has four distinct functions (adjective, adverb, intensifier and modifier in quantifying expressions), which this paper tracks in a diachronic speech corpus.… read more
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