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The Verb Phrase in English
Investigating Recent Language Change with Corpora

Part of Studies in English Language

Editors:
Bas Aarts, University College London
Joanne Close, University of Chester
Geoffrey Leech, Lancaster University
Sean Wallis, University College London

Bas Aarts, Joanne Close, Geoffrey Leech, Sean Wallis, Mark Davies, Nicholas Smith, Douglas Biber, Bethany Gray, Sali Tagliamonte, Manfred Krug, Ole Schützler, Magnus Levin, Meike Pfaff, Alexander Bergs, Thomas Hoffmann, Marcus Callies, José Ramón Varela Pérez, Gunther Kaltenböck, Jill Bowie, Christopher Williams, Stig Johansson

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Date Published: October 2015
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format: Paperback
isbn: 9781107558502

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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.
- Provides details of ongoing changes in the English verb phrase and therefore an insight into changes taking place in contemporary language
- Highlights the importance of methodology in studies of language change by exposing readers to a range of methodological approaches to studying recent language changes
- Features new and groundbreaking research carried out by leading scholars and promising new researchers from around the world
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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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- Date Published: October 2015
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107558502
- length: 474 pages
- dimensions: 230 x 150 x 25 mm
- weight: 0.7kg
- contains: 113 b/w illus. 92 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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.
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Editors
Bas Aarts, University College London
Bas Aarts is Professor of English Linguistics and Director of the Survey of English Usage at University College London.
Joanne Close, University of Chester
Joanne Close is Lecturer in English Language in the English Department at the University of Chester.
Geoffrey Leech, Lancaster University
Geoffrey Leech is Professor Emeritus of English Linguistics at Lancaster University.
Sean Wallis, University College London
Sean Wallis is a Senior Research Fellow in the Survey of English Usage at University College London.
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Bas Aarts, Joanne Close, Geoffrey Leech, Sean Wallis, Mark Davies, Nicholas Smith, Douglas Biber, Bethany Gray, Sali Tagliamonte, Manfred Krug, Ole Schützler, Magnus Levin, Meike Pfaff, Alexander Bergs, Thomas Hoffmann, Marcus Callies, José Ramón Varela Pérez, Gunther Kaltenböck, Jill Bowie, Christopher Williams, Stig Johansson