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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©2005.
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Colección: | Studies in corpus linguistics ;
v. 18. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 327 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9789027294296 9027294291 9789027222893 9027222894 |
ISSN: | 1388-0373 ; |