Getting at GET in World Englishes : : A Corpus-Based Semasiological-Syntactic Analysis / / Elisabeth Bruckmaier.

Despite its exceptional frequency and versatility, GET has never been a focus of research in its entire variability, which goes from lexical to grammatical uses, nor in large amounts of data from different varieties of English. The present corpus-based study deals with over 11,600 tokens of GET in w...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2017 Part 1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] , 95
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XVI, 328 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Theoretical and methodological framework
  • 3. Issues and factors in the variation of GET in World Englishes
  • 4. Analysis of surface forms of GET in World Englishes
  • 5. Semasiological-syntactic analysis of GET in World Englishes
  • 6. Discussion and summary
  • 7. Conclusion and outlook
  • References
  • Index