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.

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• Authors: Marianne Hundt, Hundt Marianne, Geoffrey Leech, Geoffrey (Lancaster University) Hundt Leech, Geoffrey Hundt Leech, Christian Mair, Mair Christian, Nicholas Smith
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.10.2009
• EAN: 9780521867221
• ISBN: 978-0-521-86722-1
• No. of pages: 370
• Series: Studies in English Language; Studies in English Language
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; English, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, Sociolinguistics, Grammar & vocabulary, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology