The Verb Phrase in English

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-107-55850-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 474 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 681 g

Reihe: Studies in English Language

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aarts, Bas

Close, Joanne

Leech, Geoffrey

Wallis, Sean

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction Bas Aarts, Joanne Close, Geoffrey Leech and Sean Wallis; 2. Choices over time: methodological issues in investigating current change Bas Aarts, Joanne Close and Sean Wallis; 3. Recent shifts with three nonfinite verbal complements in English: data from the 100 million word TIME Corpus (1920s–2000s) Mark Davies; 4. Verb structures in twentieth-century British English Nicholas Smith and Geoffrey Leech; 5. Nominalizing the verb phrase in academic science writing Douglas Biber and Bethany Gray; 6. The verb phrase in contemporary Canadian English Sali Tagliamonte; 7. Recent change and grammaticalization Manfred Krug and Ole Schützler; 8. The progressive verb in modern American English Magnus Levin; 9. I was just reading this article - on the expression of recentness and the English past progressive Meike Pfaff, Alexander Bergs and Thomas Hoffmann; 10. Bare infinitival complements in present-day English Marcus Callies; 11. Operator and negative contraction in spoken British English: a change in progress José Ramón Varela Pérez; 12. The development of comment clauses Gunther Kaltenböck; 13. The perfect in spoken British English Jill Bowie, Sean Wallis and Bas Aarts; 14. Changes in the verb phrase in legislative language in English Christopher Williams; 15. Modals and semi-modals of obligation in American English: some aspects of developments from 1990 until the present day Stig Johansson.

Über Autor(innen)

Leech, Geoffrey
Geoffrey Leech is Professor Emeritus of English Linguistics at Lancaster University.

Close, Joanne
Joanne Close is Lecturer in English Language in the English Department at the University of Chester.

Aarts, Bas
Bas Aarts is Professor of English Linguistics and Director of the Survey of English Usage at University College London.

Wallis, Sean
Sean Wallis is a Senior Research Fellow in the Survey of English Usage at University College London.