[Corpora-List] Re: 'Standard European English' ?

[Costas Gabrielatos]

The texts were published between 1989-1993 (see below for details)

Already in 1610 he was one of "a select number of the Lower House" who met
with the lord treasurer, Robert Cecil, first Earl of Salisbury [q.v.], son
of his father's patron, to discuss impositions. [GTE 65]
-- Source: Nicholls, C.S. (ed.) (1993). The Dictionary of National
Biography: Missing persons. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Already in 1922, Wheatley was attacking the conventional view that
internationalism held the key to ending unemployment: [CE7 909]
-- Source: Hinton, J. (1989). Protests and visions. London: Hutchinson
Radius, 20-152

Already in 1914 he was exhorting the readers of Poetry (Chicago): [A1B 1208]

Already in 1915 Pound was making this mistake about the rivers, for in "Near
Perigord", which he published in that year, he declares: [A1B 154]
Already in 1926 ( The New Republic , 30 June) Tate was obliged -- faced with
the aridity in diction and imagery of "The Hollow Men" -- to concede that
"It is possible that he has nothing more to say in poetry". [A1B 1476]
Already in 1928 he was protesting that his own pronouncements at the time of
the Imagist manifesto were tailored to the specific needs of 1914, and
should not be taken as binding fourteen years later. [A1B 1948]
-- Source: Davie, D. (1991). Studies in Ezra Pound. London: Carcanet Press.

Costas

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Do you know the dates for the quoted texts?

Nick


On 7 Mar 2006, at 21:03, Costas Gabrielatos wrote:

> If the use of 'already' in the example is a characteristic of SEE,
> what can we make of these sentences from the BNC?



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