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The Verb Phrase in English: Investigating Recent Language Change with Corpora

By Sean Wallis , Professor Bas Aarts , Joanne Close , Professor Geoffrey Leech

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2013
ISBN
1107016355, 9781107016354
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2247329 bytes)
Series
Studies in English Language
Pages
474\476
Time added
2014-12-19 01:25:03
Языки и языкознание;Английский язык;Грамматика / E

Description

The chapters in this volume feature new and groundbreaking research carried out by leading scholars and promising young researchers from around the world on recent changes in the English verb phrase. Drawing on authentic corpus data, the papers consider both spoken and written English in several genres. Each contribution pays particular attention to the methodologies used for investigating short-term patterns of change in English, with detailed discussions of controversies in this area. This cutting-edge collection is essential reading for historians of the English language, syntacticians and corpus linguists.

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