23.4641, Books: Change in Contemporary English: Leech, Hundt, Mair, Smith

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Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2012 10:32:41
From: Joyce Reid [jreid at cambridge.org]
Subject: Change in Contemporary English: Leech, Hundt, Mair, Smith

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 Title: Change in Contemporary English 
Subtitle: A Grammatical Study 
Publication Year: 2012 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Author: Geoffrey Leech
Author: Marianne Hundt
Author: Christian Mair
Author: Nicholas Smith

Paperback: ISBN:  9781107410466 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 29.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781107410466 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 50.00


Abstract:

Please note: This is a new edition of a previously released text

Based on the systematic analysis of large amounts of computer-readable text, this 2009 book shows how the English language has been changing in the recent past, often in unexpected and previously undocumented ways. The study is based on a group of matching corpora, known as the 'Brown family' of corpora, supplemented by a range of other corpus materials, both written and spoken, drawn mainly from the later twentieth century. Among the matters receiving particular attention are the influence of American English on British English, the role of the press, the 'colloquialization' of written English, and a wide range of grammatical topics, including the modal auxiliaries, progressive, subjunctive, passive, genitive and relative clauses. These subjects build an overall picture of how English grammar is changing, and the linguistic and social factors that are contributing to this process. 

Review of the hardback: 'CCE suggests a number of issues that will no doubt inspire much research in the future, not only in English, but in any language for which electronic corpora are available over a fifty- to hundred-year period. … Regardless of any limitations of the corpora, the authors have developed a rigorous methodology for tagging, quantifying and analyzing electronic corpus materials, and revealing the multifactorial nature of change in use.' - Elizabeth Closs Traugott, English Language and Linguistics 



1. Introduction: grammar-blindness in the recent history of English?
2. Comparative corpus linguistics: the methodological basis of this book
3. The subjunctive mood
4. The modal auxiliaries
5. The so-called semi-modals
6. The progressive
7. The passive voice
8. Expanded predicates
9. Non-finite clauses
10. The noun phrase
11. Linguistic and other determinants of change 


Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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