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Title English in transition : corpus-based studies in linguistic variation and genre styles / edited by Matti Rissanen, Merja Kytö, Kirsi Heikkonen.

Publication Info. Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1997.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 371 pages :) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Topics in English linguistics ; 23
Topics in English linguistics ; 23.
Bibliography Bibliography of the works found in the Helsinki corpus of English texts: pages 345-363.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents ""Introduction""; ""Be/have + past participle: The choice of the auxiliary with intransitives from Late Middle to Modern English""; ""On the forms and functions of the verb be from Old to Modern English""; ""Re-phrasing in Early English: The use of expository apposition with an explicit marker from 1350 to 1710""; ""Genre conventions: Personal affect in fiction and non-fiction in Early Modern English""; ""Towards reconstructing a grammar of point of view: Textual roles of adjectives and open-class adverbs in Early Modern English""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index of subjects""
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Literary form.
Literary form.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Rissanen, Matti.
Kytö, Merja.
Heikkonen, Kirsi, 1962-
Other Form: Print version: English in transition. Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1997 (DLC) 97025407
ISBN 9783110811148 (electronic book)
3110811146 (electronic book)
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9783110156324