Change in contemporary English : a grammatical study /
Based on the systematic analysis of large amounts of computer-readable text, this book shows how the English language has been changing in the recent past, often in unexpected and previously undocumented ways. The study is based on a group of matching corpora, known as the 'Brown family' o...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
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Colección: | Studies in English language.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : 'grammar-blindness' in the recent history of English?
- Comparative corpus linguistics : the methodological basis of this book
- The subjunctive mood
- The modal auxiliaries
- the so-called semi-modals
- The progressive
- The passive voice
- Take or have a look at a corpus? Expanded predicates in British and American English
- Non-finite clauses
- The noun phrase
- Linguistic and other determinants of change.