English in transition : corpus-based studies in linguistic variation and genre styles / / edited by Matti Rissanen, Merja Kytö, Kirsi Heikkonen

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910785630403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 1997
• ISBN: 3-11-081114-6
• Edizione: [Reprint 2011]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (381 pages)
• Collana: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] ; ; 23
• Classificazione: HF 450
• Altri autori (Persone): RissanenMatti; KytöMerja; HeikkonenKirsi <1962->
• Disciplina: 420/.1/41
• Soggetti: English language - Early modern, 1500-1700 - Discourse analysis; English language - Early modern, 1500-1700 - Variation; English language - Early modern, 1500-1700 - Style; Literary form
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Bibliography of the works found in the Helsinki corpus of English texts: p. [345]-363.; Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Preface -- Contents -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction / Rissanen, Matti / Kilpiö, Matti / Kytö, Merja / Meurman-Solin, Anneli / Nevanlinna, Saara / Pahta, Päivi / Taavitsainen, Irma -- Be/have + past participle: The choice of the auxiliary with intransitives from Late Middle to Modern English / Kytö, Merja -- On the forms and functions of the verb be from Old to Modern English / Kilpiö, Matti -- Re-phrasing in Early English: The use of expository apposition with an explicit marker from 1350 to 1710 / Pahta, Päivi / Nevanlinna, Saara -- Genre conventions: Personal affect in fiction and non-fiction in Early Modern English / Taavitsainen, Irma -- Towards reconstructing a grammar of point of view: Textual roles of adjectives and open-class adverbs in Early Modern English / Meurman-Solin, Anneli -- Bibliography -- Index of subjects