The Verb Phrase in English
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The Verb Phrase in English

Investigating Recent Language Change with Corpora

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eBook - PDF

The Verb Phrase in English

Investigating Recent Language Change with Corpora

About this book

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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Yes, you can access The Verb Phrase in English by Bas Aarts,Joanne Close,Geoffrey Leech,Sean Wallis in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Historical & Comparative Linguistics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Figures
  3. Tables
  4. Notes on contributors
  5. Preface
  6. 1 Introduction
  7. 2 Choices over time: methodological issues in investigating current change
  8. Chapter 3: Recent shifts with three nonfinite verbal complements in English: data from the 100-million-word Time corpus (1920s-2000s)
  9. 4 Verb structures in twentieth-century British English
  10. 5 Nominalizing the verb phrase in academic science writing
  11. 6 The verb phrase in contemporary Canadian English
  12. 7 Recent change and grammaticalization
  13. 8 The progressive verb in modern American English
  14. 9 I was just reading this article - on the expression of recentness and the English past progressive
  15. 10 Bare infinitival complements in Present-Day English
  16. 11 Operator and negative contraction in spoken British English: a change in progress
  17. 12 The development of comment clauses
  18. 13 The perfect in spoken British English
  19. 14 Changes in the verb phrase in legislative language in English
  20. 15 Modals and semi-modals of obligation in American English: some aspects of developments from 1990 until the present day
  21. Notes
  22. References
  23. Name index
  24. Subject index