Grammatical change in English world-wide / Edited by Peter Collins, University of New South Wales, Australia

Published:: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2015]
Physical Description:: vi, 488 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Additional Creators:: Collins, Peter, 1950-

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Studies in corpus linguistics, 1388-0373 ; volume 67

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Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Inner Circle Englishes -- Diachronic variation in the grammar of Australian English: Corpus-based explorations / Peter Collins -- At the crossroads of change: Possession, periphrasis, and prescriptivism in Victoria English / Alexandra D'Arcy -- Do-support in early New Zealand and Australian English / Marianne Hundt -- The progressive in Irish English: Looking both ways? / John M. Kirk -- Cross-variety diachronic drifts and ephemeral regional contrasts: An analysis of modality in the extended Brown family of corpora and what it can tell us about the New Englishes / Christian Mair -- Passives of so-called `ditransitives' in nineteenth century and present-day Canadian English / Matthias L.G. Meyer -- Dual adverbs in Australian English / Pam Peters -- The evolution of epistemic marking in West Australian English / Celeste Rodriguez Louro -- May and might in nineteenth century Irish English and English English / Marije Van Hattum -- The present perfect and the preterite in Australian English: A diachronic perspective / Xinyue Yao -- pt. 2 Outer Circle Englishes -- Recent diachronic change in the progressive in Philippine English / Peter Collins -- Linguistic change in a multilingual setting: A case study of quotatives in Indian English / Julia Davydova -- Patterns of regularisation in British, American and Indian English: A closer look at irregular verbs with t/ed variation / Klaar Vanopstal -- An apparent time study of the progressive in Nigerian English / Ulrike Gut -- American influence on written Caribbean English: A diachronic analysis of newspaper reportage in the Bahamas and in Trinidad and Tobago / Dagmar Deuber -- Cultural keywords in context: A pilot study of linguistic acculturation in South Asian Englishes / Tobias Bernaisch -- Recent quantitative changes in the use of modals and quasi-modals in the Hong Kong, British and American printed press: Exploring the potential of Factiva® for the diachronic investigation of World Englishes / Johan Van der Auwera -- The development of an extended time period meaning of the progressive in Black South African English / Caroline Piotrowska.

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9789027203755 (HB : alk. paper)
902720375X (HB : alk. paper)

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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