LEADER 05755nam 22007452 450 001 9910462803703321 005 20151005020621.0 010 $a1-139-61035-X 010 $a1-107-23515-4 010 $a1-139-60876-2 010 $a1-139-61221-2 010 $a1-139-62151-3 010 $a1-283-98665-5 010 $a1-139-62523-3 010 $a1-139-61593-9 010 $a1-139-06099-6 035 $a(CKB)2670000000326617 035 $a(EBL)1099865 035 $a(OCoLC)826025175 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000820570 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11446382 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000820570 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10862629 035 $a(PQKB)11610617 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781139060998 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1099865 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1099865 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10645664 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL429915 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000326617 100 $a20110413d2012|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 04$aThe verb phrase in English $einvestigating recent language change with corpora /$fedited by Bas Aarts [and others]$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (xxvii, 445 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aStudies in English language 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a1-107-55850-6 311 $a1-107-01635-5 327 $aContents; Figures; Tables; Notes on contributors; Preface; 1 Introduction; The background to this book; Contents of the volume; Chapter 2. Bas Aarts, Joanne Close and Sean Wallis (University College London and Chester), 'Choices over time: methodological issues in investigating current change'; Chapter 3. Mark Davies (Brigham Young), 'Recent shifts with three nonfinite verbal complements in English: data from the 100-million-word Time corpus (1920s-2000s)'; Chapter 4. Nicholas Smith and Geoffrey Leech (Salford and Lancaster), 'Verb structures in twentieth-century British English' 327 $aChapter 5. Douglas Biber and Bethany Gray (Northern Arizona), 'Nominalizing the verb phrase in academic science writing'Chapter 6. Sali A. Tagliamonte (Toronto), 'The verb phrase in contemporary Canadian English'; Chapter 7. Manfred Krug and Ole Schu?tzler (Bamberg), 'Recent change and grammaticalization'; Chapter 8. Magnus Levin (Va?xjo?), 'The progressive verb in modern American English'; Chapter 9. Meike Pfaff, Alexander Bergs and Thomas Hoffmann (Osnabru?ck), 'I was just reading this article - on the expression of recentness and the English past progressive' 327 $aChapter 10. Marcus Callies (Bremen), 'Bare infinitival complements in Present-Day English'Chapter 11. Jose? Ramo?n Varela Pe?rez (Santiago de Compostela), 'Operator and negative contraction in spoken British English: a change in progress'; Chapter 12. Gunther Kaltenbo?ck (Vienna), 'The development of comment clauses'; Chapter 13. Jill Bowie, Sean Wallis and Bas Aarts (University College London), 'The perfect in spoken British English'; Chapter 14. Christopher Williams (Foggia) 'Changes in the verb phrase in legislative language in English' 327 $aChapter 15. Stig Johansson (Oslo) 'Modals and semi-modals of obligation in American English: some aspects of developments from 1990 until the present day'2 Choices over time: methodological issues in investigating current change; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The Diachronic Corpus of Present-Day Spoken English; 2.3 Focusing on true alternation: the progressive; 2.3.1 Changes in frequency per million words; 2.3.2 Changes in frequency as a percentage of the total number of VPs; 2.3.3 Changes in one choice out of a set of alternants; 2.4 A case study: the alternation shall versus will; 2.4.1 Background 327 $a2.4.2 Mair and Leechs work on written English2.4.3 Experimenting with shall/will alternants in DCPSE; 2.4.4 Examining the contracted form ll; 2.4.5 Plotting trends over time; 2.4.6 Modal meaning; 2.4.7 be going to versus the modals; 2.5 Conclusions; Appendix 1: Employing statistical tests and handling small, skewed samples; Appendix 2: Measures of change; Chapter 3: Recent shifts with three nonfinite verbal complements in English: data from the 100-million-word Time corpus (1920s-2000s); 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Using text archives: the Time Magazine Corpus of American English 327 $a3.3 Three shifts in verbal complementation during the 1900s 330 $aThe chapters in this volume feature new and groundbreaking research carried out by leading scholars and promising young researchers from around the world on recent changes in the English verb phrase. Drawing on authentic corpus data, the papers consider both spoken and written English in several genres. Each contribution pays particular attention to the methodologies used for investigating short-term patterns of change in English, with detailed discussions of controversies in this area. This cutting-edge collection is essential reading for historians of the English language, syntacticians and corpus linguists. 410 0$aStudies in English language. 606 $aEnglish language$xVerb phrase 606 $aEnglish language$xSyntax 606 $aLinguistic change 615 0$aEnglish language$xVerb phrase. 615 0$aEnglish language$xSyntax. 615 0$aLinguistic change. 676 $a425/.6 702 $aAarts$b Bas$f1961- 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910462803703321 996 $aThe verb phrase in English$92464759 997 $aUNINA