31.2412, Qs: Increasing use of 'get' in the English language over time

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LINGUIST List: Vol-31-2412. Wed Jul 29 2020. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 31.2412, Qs: Increasing use of 'get' in the English language over time

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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 06:47:10
From: Mike Beaken [m.beaken at shu.ac.uk]
Subject: Increasing use of 'get' in the English language over time

 
Has anyone done any research into the use of 'get' as a semi-auxiliary, as in
"She got bored', 'He got excited', "We got robbed" etc, I can't think of
instances in Shakespeare, though I may be wrong, so I wonder how and when the
usage came into the language? How would you go about using a concordance to
answer this question? 
 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics



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