Verb Phrase in English (eBook, PDF)

Investigating Recent Language Change with Corpora
Redaktion: Aarts, Bas

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139603485
• Artikelnr.: 38444926

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Bas Aarts, Joanne Close, Geoffrey Leech and Sean Wallis; 2.
Choices over time: methodological issues in investigating current change
Bas Aarts, Joanne Close and Sean Wallis; 3. Recent shifts with three
nonfinite verbal complements in English: data from the 100 million word
TIME Corpus (1920s-2000s) Mark Davies; 4. Verb structures in
twentieth-century British English Nicholas Smith and Geoffrey Leech; 5.
Nominalizing the verb phrase in academic science writing Douglas Biber and
Bethany Gray; 6. The verb phrase in contemporary Canadian English Sali
Tagliamonte; 7. Recent change and grammaticalization Manfred Krug and Ole
Schützler; 8. The progressive verb in modern American English Magnus Levin;
9. I was just reading this article - on the expression of recentness and
the English past progressive Meike Pfaff, Alexander Bergs and Thomas
Hoffmann; 10. Bare infinitival complements in present-day English Marcus
Callies; 11. Operator and negative contraction in spoken British English: a
change in progress José Ramón Varela Pérez; 12. The development of comment
clauses Gunther Kaltenböck; 13. The perfect in spoken British English Jill
Bowie, Sean Wallis and Bas Aarts; 14. Changes in the verb phrase in
legislative language in English Christopher Williams; 15. Modals and
semi-modals of obligation in American English: some aspects of developments
from 1990 until the present day Stig Johansson.