The Present Perfect and the Preterite in Late Modern and Contemporary English : A corpus-based study of grammatical change Hardback
by Xinyue (Renmin University of China) Yao
Part of the Studies in Corpus Linguistics series
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This book examines developments in the use of the present perfect and the preterite in Late Modern and contemporary English, with a focus on American and British English.
Drawing on neo-Gricean pragmatics, it proposes a novel and principled analysis of the verb forms’ context-independent meanings and context-dependent inferences.
State-of-the-art corpus linguistic methods are used to track their functional changes over two and a half centuries.
The book presents new evidence of grammatical change and offers a compelling, contact-based account of regional variation.
It brings together the insights of various fields, including formal semantics, historical linguistics, linguistic typology, and variationist sociolinguistics.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:235 pages
- Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
- Publication Date:08/03/2024
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- ISBN:9789027214430
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:235 pages
- Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
- Publication Date:08/03/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9789027214430
