This book is one of the first comprehensive and pragmatic studies of how the word 'some' works in English. It highlights the elastic nature of 'some', which underpins the ways the word is able to perform a wide range of pragmatic functions. The book is formed around three sets of naturally-occurring classroom data: L1 speakers of American English, Chinese-speaking learners of English, and Vietnamese-speaking learners of English. The data analysis adopts a modern, mixed methods approach, combining both quantitative and qualitative analyses.
The studies find that the two L2 groups had...
This book is one of the first comprehensive and pragmatic studies of how the word 'some' works in English. It highlights the elastic nature of 'som...
