Syntactic Change in Late Modern English Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 52,9 Mb
• Release Date : 25 November 2021

This book provides a fresh perspective on language change in Late Modern English, and is illustrated with corpus-linguistic case studies.

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 48,5 Mb
• Release Date : 14 August 2014

Using increasingly sophisticated databases, this volume explores grammatical usage from the Late Modern period in a broad context.

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• File Size : 34,6 Mb
• Release Date : 12 June 2012

Information Structure and Syntactic Change in the History of English is the first book to apply information structure as it relates to language change to a corpus-based analysis of a

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 43,8 Mb
• Release Date : 24 February 2014

English in Modern Times describes the development of the English language from 1700 until 1945, and argues that it is in the course of this later modern English period that the characteristics

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 31 March 2024

The first full study of intensifiers in Late Modern English, combining a range of different theoretical perspectives on courtroom discourse.

• Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
• File Size : 50,8 Mb
• Release Date : 15 August 2018

The papers in this volume cover a wide range of interrelated syntactic phenomena, from the history of core arguments, to complements and non-finite clauses, elements in the clause periphery, as

• Publisher : Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language
• File Size : 37,6 Mb
• Release Date : 20 May 2024

It was widely believed that nothing much happened to the English language since the beginning of the 18th century. Research has shown that this is far from true, and this

• Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
• File Size : 29,9 Mb
• Release Date : 15 March 2024

This book examines developments in the use of the present perfect and the preterite in Late Modern and contemporary English, with a focus on American and British English. Drawing on

• Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
• File Size : 26,9 Mb
• Release Date : 29 May 2012

The series Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science is designed to illuminate a field which not only includes general linguistics and the study of linguistics as applied to specific languages,

• Publisher : Peter Lang
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• Release Date : 20 May 2024

This collection reflects Minoji Akimoto's concern with studies of change in English that are theoretically-informed, but founded on substantial bodies of data. Some of the contributors focus on individual texts