The verb phrase in English
Bas Aarts · 2012
Where to buy
Amazon’s price changes daily, so the most accurate place to see it is there, at the moment you buy.
View on AmazonAbout the book
"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"--
Book details
- Year
- 2012
- Language
- English
- Series
- Studies in English language
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 445
- ISBN
- 9781107016354
Data source: Wikidata
More by Bas Aarts






