Comparative studies in Australian and New Zealand English grammar and beyond [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Pam Peters, Peter Collins, Adam Smith |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 406 p.) : ill |
Disciplina | 427/.994 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
PetersPam
CollinsPeter <1950-> SmithAdam |
Collana | Varieties of English around the world |
Soggetto topico |
English language - Australia - Grammar
English language - New Zealand - Grammar Grammar, Comparative and general Language and culture |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-24522-8
9786612245220 90-272-8940-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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Comparative studies in Australian and New Zealand English grammar and beyond [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Pam Peters, Peter Collins, Adam Smith |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 406 p.) : ill |
Disciplina | 427/.994 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
PetersPam
CollinsPeter <1950-> SmithAdam |
Collana | Varieties of English around the world |
Soggetto topico |
English language - Australia - Grammar
English language - New Zealand - Grammar Grammar, Comparative and general Language and culture |
ISBN |
1-282-24522-8
9786612245220 90-272-8940-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778600803321 |
Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Comparative studies in Australian and New Zealand English grammar and beyond / / edited by Pam Peters, Peter Collins, Adam Smith |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 406 p.) : ill |
Disciplina | 427/.994 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
PetersPam
CollinsPeter <1950-> SmithAdam |
Collana | Varieties of English around the world |
Soggetto topico |
English language - Australia - Grammar
English language - New Zealand - Grammar Grammar, Comparative and general Language and culture |
ISBN |
1-282-24522-8
9786612245220 90-272-8940-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Comparative Studies in Australian and New Zealand English -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- List of abbreviations -- List of contributors -- Prologue -- 1. Previous grammatical studies of AusE and NZE -- 2. The present volume -- 3. Corpus-based approaches -- 4. Structure of the volume -- 4.1 Section I ("Morphology") -- 4.2 Section II ("Verbs and Verb Phrases") -- 4.3 Section III ("Nouns and Noun Phrases") -- 4.4 Section IV ("Clauses and Sentences") -- 4.5 Section V ("Discourse") -- References -- Section I. Morphology -- Irregular verbs -- 1. Introduction: Movements in the English verb system -- 2. Modeling and analyzing the directions of change -- 3. Using ICE-corpus data, written and spoken -- 4. Frequencies of nonstandard past verb forms used with sing/sang/sung verbs -- 5. Frequencies of standard -ed and nonstandardized -t for verbs with variable past forms -- 6. Sociolinguistic variation in verbal preferences, especially on the age spectrum -- 7. Conclusions -- References -- Pronoun forms -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data sources and methodology -- 3. Results -- 3.1 Conjoined pronouns -- 3.2 Pronouns in identificational constructions, clefts, and than-comparatives -- 3.3 Possessive me -- 3.4 Demonstrative them and us NP -- 3.5 2pl variants -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Hypocoristics in New Zealand and Australian English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Functions of hypocoristics -- 3. Sources of hypocoristics and their contexts of use -- 4. Hypocoristics of placenames -- 5. Ways of forming hypocoristics: Derivation, grammar and meaning -- 6. Distribution of hypocoristics -- 7. Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Some Australian hypocoristics for placenames and institutions -- References -- Section II. Verbs and verb phrases -- Modals and quasi-modals -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Recent changes: Quasi-modals on the rise.
3. The corpora -- 4. Frequencies across the regional varieties -- 5. Frequencies across speech and writing -- 6. The individual quasi-modals -- 6.1 Have to -- 6.2 Have got to -- 6.3 Need to -- 6.4 Be going to -- 6.5 Want to -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- The perfect and the preterite in Australian and New Zealand English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The perfect and the preterite in AusE and NZE -- 3. AusE and NZE in the company of the other national varieties -- 4. Data from Australian Style -- 5. Summing up -- References -- The progressive -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Previous corpus-based studies -- 3. The corpora -- 4. Progressive aspectuality -- 5. The growth of the progressive -- 6. Grammatical features -- 6.1 Forms of the progressive -- 6.2 Clause type -- 7. Special pragmatic uses -- 8. Contraction -- 9. Conclusion -- References -- The mandative subjunctive in spoken English -- 1. Introduction: A vexed construction -- 2. Previous corpus-based studies of the mandative subjunctive in British and American English -- 3. Variation in postcolonial Englishes in their use of the mandative subjunctive -- 4. Written vs. spoken use of the mandative subjunctive -- 5. Spoken and written data from six ICE corpora -- 6. Matrix verbs for the mandative subjunctive across six ICE corpora -- 7. Spoken contexts for the use of the mandative subjunctive -- 8. The future of the mandative subjunctive in world English -- References -- Light verbs in Australian, New Zealand and British English -- 1. Definition of "light verb" -- 2. Evidence for regional divergence -- 2.1 Research studies -- 2.2 Dictionary evidence -- 3. Frequency of common light verbs in the ICE corpora -- 3.1 Spoken vs written -- 3.2 Regional and temporal differences -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- Section III. Nouns and noun phrases -- Non-numerical quantifiers -- 1. Introduction. 2. Classification of NNQs -- 3. Issues that apply to NNQs -- 3.1 Grammar: Verbal agreement and noun complementation -- 3.2 Collocation -- 3.3 Semantic weight -- 3.4 Variation -- 4. Previous corpus studies -- 5. Corpus findings -- 5.1 A lot/lots of -- 5.2 ONNQs that have a singular or plural quantifying noun -- 6. NNQs with singular or plural forms only -- 7. Conclusions -- References -- Appendix 1 -- From chairman to chairwoman to chairperson -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Women, men and social salience -- 3. Occupational terms -- 3.1 Contextual considerations -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix -- Section IV. Clauses and sentences -- Concord with collective nouns in Australian and New Zealand English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Previous research and hypotheses -- 2.1 Diachronic variation -- 2.2 Regional variation -- 2.3 Stylistic variation -- 2.4 Language-internal variation -- 3. Corpus data -- 3.1 Definition of the variable -- 3.2 Results and discussion -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix -- No in the lexicogrammar of English -- 1. Introduction: Expressing negation -- 2. Research on the uses of no in contemporary English -- 3. Source material used in this study -- 4. Preliminary identification of reaction signals -- 5. Types of no collocation found in speech and writingLet -- 6. Relative frequency of no collocations and not any paraphrases -- 7. Freshly created no collocations -- 8. Conclusions -- References -- Appendix -- Zero complementizer, syntactic context, and regional variety -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The predictions of syntactic theory -- 3. Non-syntactic factors in the occurrence of zero complementizer -- 4. Description of the corpus and results for general syntactic factors -- 5. Noun complement clauses -- 6. Description of the data and results for noun complement clauses -- 7. Concluding remarks -- References. Infinitival and gerundial complements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Gerunds and infinitives in written English: The Brown family of corpora -- 2.1 help + infinitive -- 2.2 prevent/stop + NP + (from) + gerund -- 2.3 start and begin in catenative uses -- 3. Gerunds and infinitives in spoken English: Data from three ICE corpora -- 3.1 help + infinitive -- 3.2 prevent/stop + NP + (from) + gerund -- 3.3 start and begin in catenative uses -- 4. The regional factor in context: Medium, style and lexical incidence -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Commas and connective adverbs -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The problem -- 3. Properties of connective adverbs -- 4. Commas and connective adverbs -- 5. "One sentence or two?" -- 6. Towards a semantic explanation -- References -- Section V. Discourse -- Information-packaging constructions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The corpora -- 3. Some diachronic trends -- 4. Regional and stylistic variation -- 5. Existentials -- 6. Extraposition -- 7. Clefts -- 7.1 It-clefts -- 7.2 Basic pseudo-clefts -- 7.3 Reversed pseudo-clefts -- 8. Conclusion -- References -- Like and other discourse markers* -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Discourse markers -- 3. Quantitative data -- 4. Constructions with like: Competing analyses -- 4.1 Like as a marker of intimacy and solidarity, especially among teenagers -- 4.2 Like as a marker of loose talk -- 4.3 Like as a discourse marker -- 5. The speakers -- 5.1 Australian speakers -- 5.2 New Zealand speakers -- 6. Constructions with like -- 6.1 The functions of like (DM) in three sentence locations -- 7. Clause-initial like (DM) -- 8. Clause medial like (DM) -- 9. Clause-final like (DM) -- 10. Like in combination with other DMs -- 11. Conclusion -- References -- Final but in Australian English conversation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The origins of Final Particle but in AusE -- 3. Data -- 4. Final Particle but in AusE. 4.1 Final Hanging but -- 4.2 Final Particle but -- 4.3 Summary -- 5. Comprehending Final but in contemporary AusE -- 6. Social meaning of Final but in contemporary AusE -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Swearing -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What is swearing? -- 3. Why do we swear? -- 3.1 The expletive function -- 3.2 Swearing as abuse or insult -- 3.3 The social function of swearing -- 3.4 Stylistic functions of swearing -- 4. Swearwords as discourse particles -- 5. The evolution of swearing patterns - what is offensive changes over time -- 6. Swearing is ever changing, but here to stay -- References -- Epilogue -- 1. Differentiation among varieties of English -- 2. Reflexes of BrE persisting in AusE and NZE -- 3. Similarities between AusE and NZE grammar: An antipodean standard? -- 4. Differences between AusE and NZE lexicogrammar: Independent national characteristics -- 5. Register differentiation in AusE and NZE via the ICE corpora -- 6. Corpus-based analysis and sociolinguistic variation -- 7. Conclusions: Larger evolutionary trends in AusE, NZE and world English -- References -- Index -- The series Varieties of English Around the World. |
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Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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New Zealand English grammar, fact or fiction? [[electronic resource] ] : a corpus-based study in morphosyntactic variation / / Marianne Hundt |
Autore | Hundt Marianne |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c1998 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (228 p.) |
Disciplina | 427/.993 |
Collana | Varieties of English around the world. General series |
Soggetto topico |
English language - New Zealand - Grammar
English language - Variation - New Zealand English language - New Zealand - Discourse analysis |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-283-35834-4
9786613358349 90-272-7555-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
NEW ZEALAND ENGLISH GRAMMAR FACT OR FICTION? A CORPUS-BASED STUDY IN MORPHOSYNTACTIC VARIATION; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Table of contents; Figures and tables; Abbreviations; Preface; 1. Introduction; 1.1. Previous research; 1.1.1. NZE and its relation to other national varieties; 1.1.2. NZE and language change; 1.1.3. Stylistic variation within NZE; 1.2. Aim and scope of the study; 2. Theoretical and methodological foundations; 2.1. The notion of 'standard' in English; 2.2. International English and national standards
2.3. Variation studies and corpus linguistics2.3.1. Corpus linguistics and statistics; 2.3.2. The corpora - sampling principles; 2.3.3. The corpora - corpus size; 2.3.4. Corpus linguistics and variation studies: An integrated approach; 2.3.5. Corpus linguistics and elicitation tests; 3. Morphology; 3.1. Irregular verbs; 3.1.1. 'Burn, learn' and 'dream' in New Zealand, British and American English; 3.1.2. Regularization of irregular past tense forms: A comparison of New Zealand, Australian and British English; 3.1.3. Trove'; 3.1.4. 'Gotten'; 3.2. Comparison of adjectives 3.2.1. Periphrastic comparison of monosyllabic adjectives3.2.2. Double comparatives; 3.3. The s-genitive; 3.4. Summary; 4. Syntax; 4.1. 'Have'; 4.1.1. Corpus data - occurrences of 'have'; 4.1.2. 'Have to' with modal meaning; 4.13. Full verb 'have'; 4.2. 'Shall' and 'will'; 4.3. Marginal modals; 4.3.1. 'Need' and 'dare; 4.3.2.'Ought (to)'; 4.3.3. 'Used to''; 4.4. Aspect; 4.4.1. Preterite and perfect; 4.4.2. The progressive; 4.5. A note on the 'get'-passive; 4.6. Collective nouns; 4.6.1. Regional variation; 4.6.2. Verbal,pronominal and mixed concord 4.6.3. Diachronie change and stylistic variation4.6.4. Corpus data; 4.7. The mandative subjunctive; 4.7.1. Comparing NZE with BrE and Am E; 4.7.2. Mandative constructions in NZE and AusE; 4.8. 'For-to '-infinitive constructions; 4.9. Summary; 5. Lexico-grammar; 5.1. 'Different'; 5.2. 'Protest' and 'appeal'; 5.3. 'Chance ' and 'provide; 5.4. 'Farewell'; 5.5. 'Screen'; 5.6. 'Look'; 5.7. Summary; 6. Statistical significance and linguistic relevance; 6.1. Because; 6.2. Would; 6.3. Not; 6.4. Summary; 7. Conclusion; 7.1. Regional variation and diachronic change 7.2. Regional and stylistic variation7.3. On the role of frequency as a defining criterion for variety-specific variants; 7.4. New Zealand English - a separate national standard?; 7.5. Representativeness of the sample and the validity of results; 7.6. Results of elicitation tests and findings based on corpus data; 8. References; Appendix 1. Letters to the editor of The Dominion; Appendix 2. Comparative word frequency list; Yule's Q and significance levels; Appendix 3. Elicitation Test; Appendix 4. Additional Tables and Statistics; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457933903321 |
Hundt Marianne | ||
Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c1998 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
New Zealand English grammar, fact or fiction? : a corpus-based study in morphosyntactic variation / / Marianne Hundt |
Autore | Hundt Marianne |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., , 1998 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiv, 212 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 427/.993 |
Collana | Varieties of English around the world. General series |
Soggetto topico |
English language - New Zealand - Grammar
English language - Variation - New Zealand English language - New Zealand - Discourse analysis |
ISBN |
1-283-35834-4
9786613358349 90-272-7555-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
NEW ZEALAND ENGLISH GRAMMAR FACT OR FICTION? A CORPUS-BASED STUDY IN MORPHOSYNTACTIC VARIATION; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Table of contents; Figures and tables; Abbreviations; Preface; 1. Introduction; 1.1. Previous research; 1.1.1. NZE and its relation to other national varieties; 1.1.2. NZE and language change; 1.1.3. Stylistic variation within NZE; 1.2. Aim and scope of the study; 2. Theoretical and methodological foundations; 2.1. The notion of 'standard' in English; 2.2. International English and national standards
2.3. Variation studies and corpus linguistics; 2.3.1. Corpus linguistics and statistics; 2.3.2. The corpora - sampling principles; 2.3.3. The corpora - corpus size; 2.3.4. Corpus linguistics and variation studies: An integrated approach; 2.3.5. Corpus linguistics and elicitation tests; 3. Morphology; 3.1. Irregular verbs; 3.1.1. 'Burn, learn' and 'dream' in New Zealand, British and American English; 3.1.2. Regularization of irregular past tense forms: A comparison of New Zealand, Australian and British English; 3.1.3. Trove'; 3.1.4. 'Gotten'; 3.2. Comparison of adjectives 3.2.1. Periphrastic comparison of monosyllabic adjectives; 3.2.2. Double comparatives; 3.3. The s-genitive; 3.4. Summary; 4. Syntax; 4.1. 'Have'; 4.1.1. Corpus data - occurrences of 'have'; 4.1.2. 'Have to' with modal meaning; 4.13. Full verb 'have'; 4.2. 'Shall' and 'will'; 4.3. Marginal modals; 4.3.1. 'Need' and 'dare; 4.3.2.'Ought (to)'; 4.3.3. 'Used to''; 4.4. Aspect; 4.4.1. Preterite and perfect; 4.4.2. The progressive; 4.5. A note on the 'get'-passive; 4.6. Collective nouns; 4.6.1. Regional variation; 4.6.2. Verbal,pronominal and mixed concord 4.6.3. Diachronie change and stylistic variation; 4.6.4. Corpus data; 4.7. The mandative subjunctive; 4.7.1. Comparing NZE with BrE and Am E; 4.7.2. Mandative constructions in NZE and AusE; 4.8. 'For-to '-infinitive constructions; 4.9. Summary; 5. Lexico-grammar; 5.1. 'Different'; 5.2. 'Protest' and 'appeal'; 5.3. 'Chance ' and 'provide; 5.4. 'Farewell'; 5.5. 'Screen'; 5.6. 'Look'; 5.7. Summary; 6. Statistical significance and linguistic relevance; 6.1. Because; 6.2. Would; 6.3. Not; 6.4. Summary; 7. Conclusion; 7.1. Regional variation and diachronic change 7.2. Regional and stylistic variation; 7.3. On the role of frequency as a defining criterion for variety-specific variants; 7.4. New Zealand English - a separate national standard?; 7.5. Representativeness of the sample and the validity of results; 7.6. Results of elicitation tests and findings based on corpus data; 8. References; Appendix 1. Letters to the editor of The Dominion; Appendix 2. Comparative word frequency list; Yule's Q and significance levels; Appendix 3. Elicitation Test; Appendix 4. Additional Tables and Statistics; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781530503321 |
Hundt Marianne | ||
Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., , 1998 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
New Zealand English grammar, fact or fiction? : a corpus-based study in morphosyntactic variation / / Marianne Hundt |
Autore | Hundt Marianne |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., , 1998 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiv, 212 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 427/.993 |
Collana | Varieties of English around the world. General series |
Soggetto topico |
English language - New Zealand - Grammar
English language - Variation - New Zealand English language - New Zealand - Discourse analysis |
ISBN |
1-283-35834-4
9786613358349 90-272-7555-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
NEW ZEALAND ENGLISH GRAMMAR FACT OR FICTION? A CORPUS-BASED STUDY IN MORPHOSYNTACTIC VARIATION; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Table of contents; Figures and tables; Abbreviations; Preface; 1. Introduction; 1.1. Previous research; 1.1.1. NZE and its relation to other national varieties; 1.1.2. NZE and language change; 1.1.3. Stylistic variation within NZE; 1.2. Aim and scope of the study; 2. Theoretical and methodological foundations; 2.1. The notion of 'standard' in English; 2.2. International English and national standards
2.3. Variation studies and corpus linguistics; 2.3.1. Corpus linguistics and statistics; 2.3.2. The corpora - sampling principles; 2.3.3. The corpora - corpus size; 2.3.4. Corpus linguistics and variation studies: An integrated approach; 2.3.5. Corpus linguistics and elicitation tests; 3. Morphology; 3.1. Irregular verbs; 3.1.1. 'Burn, learn' and 'dream' in New Zealand, British and American English; 3.1.2. Regularization of irregular past tense forms: A comparison of New Zealand, Australian and British English; 3.1.3. Trove'; 3.1.4. 'Gotten'; 3.2. Comparison of adjectives 3.2.1. Periphrastic comparison of monosyllabic adjectives; 3.2.2. Double comparatives; 3.3. The s-genitive; 3.4. Summary; 4. Syntax; 4.1. 'Have'; 4.1.1. Corpus data - occurrences of 'have'; 4.1.2. 'Have to' with modal meaning; 4.13. Full verb 'have'; 4.2. 'Shall' and 'will'; 4.3. Marginal modals; 4.3.1. 'Need' and 'dare; 4.3.2.'Ought (to)'; 4.3.3. 'Used to''; 4.4. Aspect; 4.4.1. Preterite and perfect; 4.4.2. The progressive; 4.5. A note on the 'get'-passive; 4.6. Collective nouns; 4.6.1. Regional variation; 4.6.2. Verbal,pronominal and mixed concord 4.6.3. Diachronie change and stylistic variation; 4.6.4. Corpus data; 4.7. The mandative subjunctive; 4.7.1. Comparing NZE with BrE and Am E; 4.7.2. Mandative constructions in NZE and AusE; 4.8. 'For-to '-infinitive constructions; 4.9. Summary; 5. Lexico-grammar; 5.1. 'Different'; 5.2. 'Protest' and 'appeal'; 5.3. 'Chance ' and 'provide; 5.4. 'Farewell'; 5.5. 'Screen'; 5.6. 'Look'; 5.7. Summary; 6. Statistical significance and linguistic relevance; 6.1. Because; 6.2. Would; 6.3. Not; 6.4. Summary; 7. Conclusion; 7.1. Regional variation and diachronic change 7.2. Regional and stylistic variation; 7.3. On the role of frequency as a defining criterion for variety-specific variants; 7.4. New Zealand English - a separate national standard?; 7.5. Representativeness of the sample and the validity of results; 7.6. Results of elicitation tests and findings based on corpus data; 8. References; Appendix 1. Letters to the editor of The Dominion; Appendix 2. Comparative word frequency list; Yule's Q and significance levels; Appendix 3. Elicitation Test; Appendix 4. Additional Tables and Statistics; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910816617303321 |
Hundt Marianne | ||
Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., , 1998 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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