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Progressives, patterns, pedagogy : a corpus-driven approach to English progressive forms, functions, contexts, and didactics /

This book presents a large-scale corpus-driven study of progressives in 'real' English and 'school' English, combining an analysis of general linguistic interest with a pedagogically motivated one. A systematic comparative analysis of more than 10,000 progressive forms taken from...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Römer, Ute
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2005.
Colección:Studies in corpus linguistics ; v. 18.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This book presents a large-scale corpus-driven study of progressives in 'real' English and 'school' English, combining an analysis of general linguistic interest with a pedagogically motivated one. A systematic comparative analysis of more than 10,000 progressive forms taken from the largest existing corpora of spoken British English and from a small corpus of EFL textbook texts highlights numerous differences between actual language use and textbook language concerning the distribution of progressives, their preferred contexts, favoured functions, and typical lexical-grammatical patterns. On.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xi, 327 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789027294296
9027294291
9789027222893
9027222894
ISSN:1388-0373 ;