The Verb Phrase in English

Investigating Recent Language Change with Corpora

By: Bas Aarts (Editor), Joanne Close (Editor), Geoffrey Leech (Editor)

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Hardcover | 14 February 2013

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The 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.

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'I highly recommend The Verb Phrase in English, both as a resource for students and scholars who want an overview of currently ongoing changes in the verbal domain, but also, and no less importantly, as an inspiration for further research ... The editors and the authors are to be complimented on a volume that showcases the merits of the currently ongoing enterprise of investigating recent change in English on the basis of diachronic corpora. The book offers the reader an authoritative and well-organised overview of changes that pertain to verbal structures.' Martin Hilpert, Cercles

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Introduction
Choices over time: methodological issues in current change Bas Aarts
Recent shifts with three nonfinite verbal complements in English: data from the 100 million word TIME Corpus (1920s-2000s)
Verb structures in twentieth-century British English
Nominalizing the verb phrase in academic science writing
The verb phrase in contemporary Canadian English
Recent change and grammaticalization
The progressive verb in modern American English
I was just reading this article - on the expression of recentness and the English past progressive
Bare infinitival complements in present-day English
Operator and negative contraction in spoken British English: a change in progress
The development of the comment clause
The perfect in spoken British English
Changes in the verb phrase in legislative language in English
Modals and semi-modals of obligation in American English: some aspects of developments from 1990 until the present day
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Investigating Recent Language Change with Corpora

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