English in Transition : : Corpus-based Studies in Linguistic Variation and Genre Styles / / ed. by Kirsi Heikkonen, Matti Rissanen, Merja Kytö.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]
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Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Reprint 2011
Language:English
Series:Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] , 23
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Physical Description:1 online resource (371 p.) :; Num. Tabs.
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Table of Contents:
  • I-IV
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • List of abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Be/have + past participle: The choice of the auxiliary with intransitives from Late Middle to Modern English
  • On the forms and functions of the verb be from Old to Modern English
  • Re-phrasing in Early English: The use of expository apposition with an explicit marker from 1350 to 1710
  • Genre conventions: Personal affect in fiction and non-fiction in Early Modern English
  • Towards reconstructing a grammar of point of view: Textual roles of adjectives and open-class adverbs in Early Modern English
  • Bibliography
  • Index of subjects