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This major linguistic study of Guernsey Norman French offers an extensive presentation and analysis of one of the most important sources of data available in the dialect, namely Thomas Martin's translations of the Bible and of 100 plays from the work of Shakespeare, Longfellow, Pierre and Thomas Corneille, Moliere and Voltaire. The book describes the socio-political development of Guernsey Norman French, its salient features and linguistic context, and presents the translations against the backdrop of late nineteenth-century Guernsey society. The linguistic analysis focuses on Martin's orthographic system, the way in which the translations reflect nineteenth-century Guernsey Norman french and how the corpus can provide new grammatical and lexical information about the dialect. Transcribed extracts from the translations are also included, supplemented by linguistic notes. The book will be of interest to linguists studying dialectology, translation and language contact and change.

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The complete guide to statistical modelling with GENSTAT Focusing on solving practical problems and using real datasets collected during research of various sorts, Statistical Modelling Using GENSTAT emphasizes developing and understanding statistical tools. Throughout the text, these statistical tools are applied to answer the very questions the original researchers sought to answer. GENSTAT, the powerful statistical software, is introduced early in the book and practice problems are carried out using the software, in the process helping students to understand the application of statistical methods to real-world data.

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