The Present Perfect and the Preterite in Late Modern and Contemporary English : A corpus-based study of grammatical change EPUB
by Yao Xinyue 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:EPUB
- Pages:253 pages
- Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Publication Date:15/03/2024
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- ISBN:9789027248602
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:253 pages
- Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Publication Date:15/03/2024
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- ISBN:9789027248602
