UID:
(DE-602)gbv_739128590
Format:
Online-Ressource (476 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9781107016354
Series Statement:
Studies in English Language
Content:
Features new and groundbreaking research on recent changes in the English verb phrase
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; Figures; Tables; Notes on contributors; Preface; 1 Introduction; The background to this book; Contents of the volume; Chapter 2. Bas Aarts, Joanne Close and Sean Wallis (University College London and Chester), 'Choices over time: methodological issues in investigating current change'; Chapter 3. Mark Davies (Brigham Young), 'Recent shifts with three nonfinite verbal complements in English: data from the 100-million-word Time corpus (1920s-2000s)'; Chapter 4. Nicholas Smith and Geoffrey Leech (Salford and Lancaster), 'Verb structures in twentieth-century British English'
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Chapter 5. Douglas Biber and Bethany Gray (Northern Arizona), 'Nominalizing the verb phrase in academic science writing'Chapter 6. Sali A. Tagliamonte (Toronto), 'The verb phrase in contemporary Canadian English'; Chapter 7. Manfred Krug and Ole Schützler (Bamberg), 'Recent change and grammaticalization'; Chapter 8. Magnus Levin (Växjö), 'The progressive verb in modern American English'; Chapter 9. Meike Pfaff, Alexander Bergs and Thomas Hoffmann (Osnabrück), 'I was just reading this article - on the expression of recentness and the English past progressive'
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Chapter 10. Marcus Callies (Bremen), 'Bare infinitival complements in Present-Day English'Chapter 11. José Ramón Varela Pérez (Santiago de Compostela), 'Operator and negative contraction in spoken British English: a change in progress'; Chapter 12. Gunther Kaltenböck (Vienna), 'The development of comment clauses'; Chapter 13. Jill Bowie, Sean Wallis and Bas Aarts (University College London), 'The perfect in spoken British English'; Chapter 14. Christopher Williams (Foggia) 'Changes in the verb phrase in legislative language in English'
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Chapter 15. Stig Johansson (Oslo) 'Modals and semi-modals of obligation in American English: some aspects of developments from 1990 until the present day'2 Choices over time: methodological issues in investigating current change; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The Diachronic Corpus of Present-Day Spoken English; 2.3 Focusing on true alternation: the progressive; 2.3.1 Changes in frequency per million words; 2.3.2 Changes in frequency as a percentage of the total number of VPs; 2.3.3 Changes in one choice out of a set of alternants; 2.4 A case study: the alternation shall versus will; 2.4.1 Background
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2.4.2 Mair and Leechs work on written English2.4.3 Experimenting with shall/will alternants in DCPSE; 2.4.4 Examining the contracted form ll; 2.4.5 Plotting trends over time; 2.4.6 Modal meaning; 2.4.7 be going to versus the modals; 2.5 Conclusions; Appendix 1: Employing statistical tests and handling small, skewed samples; Appendix 2: Measures of change; Chapter 3: Recent shifts with three nonfinite verbal complements in English: data from the 100-million-word Time corpus (1920s-2000s); 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Using text archives: the Time Magazine Corpus of American English
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3.3 Three shifts in verbal complementation during the 1900s
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781139615938
Additional Edition:
Print version The Verb Phrase in English Investigating Recent Language Change with Corpora
Language:
English
Keywords:
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