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The Present Perfect and the Preterite in Late Modern and Contemporary English: A corpus-based study of grammatical change - Studies in Corpus Linguistics Yao, Xinyue (Renmin University of China)
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The Present Perfect and the Preterite in Late Modern and Contemporary English: A corpus-based study of grammatical change - Studies in Corpus Linguistics
Yao, Xinyue (Renmin University of China)
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. As a corpus-based study of grammatical change, it is innovative in the following aspects: Drawing on neo-Gricean pragmatics, it proposes a novel and principled analysis of the two verb forms' context-independent meanings and context-dependent inferences; it employs state-of-the-art corpus linguistic methods (e.g., mixed-effect logistic regression and random forests) to track the verb forms' functional changes over two and a half centuries; it uncovers new evidence both in favor of and against well-known pathways of grammatical change; it offers a compelling, contact-based account of grammatical differences between American and British English; and it brings together the insights of various fields, including formal semantics, historical linguistics, linguistic typology, and variationist sociolinguistics.
239 pages, + index
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | March 8, 2024 |
| ISBN13 | 9789027214430 |
| Publishers | John Benjamins Publishing Co |
| Pages | 235 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 20 mm · 590 g |
