The Verb Phrase in English:

Investigating recent language change with corpora

Edited by: Bas Aarts, Joanne Close, Geoffrey Leech and Sean Wallis
Published by Cambridge University Press, February 2013.
Hardback: ISBN 9781107016354

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Contents

	Notes on Contributors
	Preface
1.	Introduction - Bas Aarts, Jo Close, Geoff Leech and Sean Wallis
2.	Choices over time: methodological issues in current change - Bas Aarts, Jo 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 research writing - Douglas Biber and Bethany Grey
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 - Alexander Bergs, Meike Pfaff 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 legal English - Christopher Williams
15.	Modals and semi-modals of obligation in American English - Stig Johannson
	Index

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