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The Structural Design of Language

By Thomas S. Stroik, Michael T. Putnam

In this book, Stroik and Putnam take on Turing's challenge. They argue that the narrow syntax – the lexicon, the Numeration, and the computational system – must reside, for reasons of conceptual necessity, within the performance systems.

Query Details

Query Subject:	American English vocabulary in British English
Author:	Eve Townend
Submitter Email:	click here to access email

Linguistic LingField(s):	Lexicography

Query:	I am looking for a source of information that would provide me with a list of American vocabulary that has been borrowed into the British English lexicon. A list that gives dates for when the words first became present in British English would be particularly useful.
LL Issue:	15.2895
Date posted:	13-Oct-2004
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