English in transition : corpus-based studies in linguistic variation and genre styles /
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| Imprint: | Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1997. |
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| Description: | x, 371 : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Topics in English linguistics 23 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2916747 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Matti Rissanen, Matti Kilpio and Merja Kyto [et al.]
- Be/have + past participle: The choice of the auxiliary with intransitives from Late Middle to Modern English / Merja Kyto
- On the forms and functions of the verb be from Old to Modern English / Matti Kilpio
- Re-phrasing in Early English: The use of expository apposition with an explicit marker from 1350 to 1710 / Paivi Pahta and Saara Nevanlinna
- Genre conventions: Personal affect in fiction and non-fiction in Early Modern English / Irma Taavitsainen
- Towards reconstructing a grammar of point of view: Textual roles of adjectives and open-class adverbs in Early Modern English / Anneli Meurman-Solin.