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Change in Contemporary English: A Grammatical Study (Studies in English Language) by Leech, Geoffrey (author);Hundt, Marianne (author);Mair, Christian (author);Smith, Nicholas (author) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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<p>The aim of this series is to provide a framework for original studies of English, both present-day and past. All books are based securely on empirical research, and represent theoretical and descriptive contributions to our knowledge of national and international varieties of English, both written and spoken. The series covers a broad range of topics and approaches, including syntax phonology, grammar, vocabulary, discourse pragmatics, and sociolinguistic, is aimed at an international readership.</p> <p>Based on the systematic analysis of large amounts of computer-readable text, this book shows how the English language has been changing in the recent past, often in unexpected and previously undocumented ways. The study is based on a group of matching corpora, known as the 'Brown family' of corpora, supplemented by a range of other corpus materials, both written and spoken, drawn mainly from the later twentieth century. Among the matters receiving particular attention are the influence of American English on British English, the role of the press, the 'colloquialization' of written English, and a wide range of grammatical topics, including the modal auxiliaries, progressive, subj

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Author

Leech, Geoffrey (author);Hundt, Marianne (author);Mair, Christian (author);Smith, Nicholas (author)

Publisher

Cambridge Univerisity Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780511638138

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Language Learning, Linguistics, Literary Fiction