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Change in Contemporary English : a Grammatical Study.
An assessment of how English grammar is changing, and the linguistic and social factors that are contributing to this process.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
Ã2009 |
| Colección: | Studies in English language.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Preface; Abbreviations and symbolic conventions; 1 Introduction: 'grammar blindness' in the recent history of English?; 2 Comparative corpus linguistics: the methodological basis of this book; 3 The subjunctive mood; 4 The modal auxiliaries; 5 The so-called semi-modals; 6 The progressive; 7 The passive voice; 8 Take or have a look at a corpus? Expanded predicates in British and American English; 9 Non-finite clauses; 10 The noun phrase; 11 Linguistic and other determinants of change.
- Appendix I The composition of the Brown CorpusAppendix II The C8 tagset used for part-of-speech tagging of the four corpora; Appendix III Additional statistical tables and charts; References; Index.