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Author:   Marianne Hundt (Universität Zürich)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.590kg
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9781108403870

ISBN 10:   1108403875
Pages:   407
Publication Date:   18 May 2017
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Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction. Late Modern English syntax in its linguistic and socio-historical context Marianne Hundt; Part I. Changes in the VP: 2. The decline of the BE-perfect, linguistic relativity, and grammar writing in the nineteenth century Lieselotte Anderwald; 3. Let's not, let's don't and don't let's in British and American English Anita Auer; 4. Do we got a difference? Divergent developments of semi-auxiliary (have) got (to) in British and American English Christian Mair; 5. From contraction to construction? The recent life of 'll Nadja Nesselhauf; 6. Books that sell - mediopassives and the modification 'constraint' Marianne Hundt; Part II. Changes in the NP: 7. Beyond mere syntactic change: a micro-analytical study of various and numerous Tine Breban; 8. Culturally conditioned language change? A multivariate analysis of genitive constructions in ARCHER Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, Anette Rosenbach, Joan Bresnan and Christoph Wolk; Part III. Changes in Complementation Patterns: 9. On the changing status of that-clauses Günter Rohdenburg; 10. Variability in verb complementation in Late Modern English: finite vs non-finite patterns Hubert Cuyckens, Frauke D'Hoedt and Benedikt Szmrecsanyi; Part IV. Category Change: 11. Opposite developments in composite predicate constructions: the case of take advantage of and make use of Eva Berlage; 12. Constrained confusion: the gerund/participle distinction in Late Modern English Hendrik De Smet; 13. 'You are a bit of a sneak': exploring a degree modifier in the Old Bailey Corpus Claudia Claridge and Merja Kytö; Part V. The Syntax-Pragmatics Interface: 14. If you choose/like/prefer/want/wish: the origin of metalinguistic and politeness functions Laurel J. Brinton; 15. Epistemic parentheticals with seem: Late Modern English in focus María José López-Couso and Belén Méndez-Naya; Part VI. Text-Type Related Change: 16. Syntactic stability and change in nineteenth-century newspaper language Erik Smitterberg; Part VII. Language Contact and Syntactic Change: 17. '(W)ell are you not got over thinking about going to ireland yet': the BE-perfect in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Irish English Kevin McCafferty.

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'A very timely and strong collection of fine-grained qualitative analyses investigating morphological and syntactic change in Late Modern English.' Ursula Lenker, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen 'For a long time the Late Modern English period seemed to be a time when little happened to the grammar of the language, but at last justice is being done to the interesting changes that were taking place. This well-edited volume shows how newly available resources of corpora and databases of the period, together with more refined techniques of analysis, are bringing such changes into the spotlight.' Geoffrey Leech, Emeritus Professor of English Linguistics, Lancaster University 'This impressive volume with contributions by leading scholars on the main areas of Late Modern English syntax is an indispensable guide to a fascinating period in the history of the English language.' Bas Aarts, University College London 'The book itself as a finished product is a remarkable achievement: all the topics under discussion are intrinsically worthy of in-depth investigation, and some of them build on earlier findings concerning similar issues, or rely on corpora already used in previous studies, in order to provide new perspectives on specific themes ... It will be of interest to scholars and advanced students also specializing in methodological issues, as the quantitative investigations offered in the contributions help to shed more light on what best practices ought to be followed in studies of this kind.' Marina Dossena, English Language and Linguistics

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Marianne Hundt is Full Professor of English Linguistics in the English Department at Universität Zürich.

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