35.1404, Books: The Present Perfect and the Preterite in Late Modern and Contemporary English: Yao (2024)

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Subject: 35.1404, Books: The Present Perfect and the Preterite in Late Modern and Contemporary English: Yao (2024)

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Date: 04-Apr-2024
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: The Present Perfect and the Preterite in Late Modern and Contemporary English: Yao (2024)


Title: The Present Perfect and the Preterite in Late Modern and
Contemporary English
Subtitle: A corpus-based study of grammatical change
Series Title: Studies in Corpus Linguistics   114
Publication Year: 2024
Publisher: John Benjamins
                http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/scl.114

Author: Xinyue Yao
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027214430 Pages: 253 Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027214430 Pages: 253 Price: U.K. £ 92.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027214430 Pages: 253 Price: Europe EURO 110.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027214430 Pages: 253 Price: Europe EURO 116.60
eBook: ISBN: 9789027248602 Pages: 253 Price: U.S. $ 143.00
eBook: ISBN: 9789027248602 Pages: 253 Price: U.K. £ 92.00
eBook: ISBN: 9789027248602 Pages: 253 Price: Europe EURO 110.00
Abstract:

This book examines developments in the use of the present perfect and
the preterite in Late Modern and contemporary English, with a focus on
American and British English. Drawing on neo-Gricean pragmatics, it
proposes a novel and principled analysis of the verb forms’
context-independent meanings and context-dependent inferences.
State-of-the-art corpus linguistic methods are used to track their
functional changes over two and a half centuries. The book presents
new evidence of grammatical change and offers a compelling,
contact-based account of regional variation. It brings together the
insights of various fields, including formal semantics, historical
linguistics, linguistic typology, and variationist sociolinguistics.

Written In: English (eng)



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