Change in Contemporary English - A Grammatical Study

Klappentext An assessment of how English grammar is changing, and the linguistic and social factors that are contributing to this process. Zusammenfassung 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! and discusses the linguistic and social factors that are contributing to this process. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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. Expanded predicates; 9. Non-finite clauses; 10. The noun phrase; 11. Linguistic and other determinants of change.

Product details

• Authors: Marianne Hundt, Geoffrey Leech, Geoffrey Hundt Leech, Christian Mair, Nicholas Smith
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.10.2012
• EAN: 9781107410466
• ISBN: 978-1-107-41046-6
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 230 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Studies in English Language; Print On Demand; Print on Demand; Studies in English Language
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures