Book contents
- The Verb Phrase in English
- Series page
- The Verb Phrase in English
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Notes on contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Choices over time: methodological issues in investigating current change
- 3 Recent shifts with three nonfinite verbal complements in English: data from the 100-million-wordTimecorpus (1920s–2000s)
- 4 Verb structures in twentieth-century British English
- 5 Nominalizing the verb phrase in academic science writing
- 6 The verb phrase in contemporary Canadian English
- 7 Recent change and grammaticalization
- 8 The progressive verb in modern American English
- 9 I was just reading this article– on the expression of recentness and the English past progressive
- 10 Bare infinitival complements in Present-Day English
- 11 Operator and negative contraction in spoken British English: a change in progress
- 12 The development of comment clauses
- 13 The perfect in spoken British English
- 14 Changes in the verb phrase in legislative language in English
- 15 Modals and semi-modals of obligation in American English: some aspects of developments from 1990 until the present day
- Notes
- References
- Name index
- Subject index
11 - Operator and negative contraction in spoken British English: a change in progress
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2013
Book contents
- The Verb Phrase in English
- Series page
- The Verb Phrase in English
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Notes on contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Choices over time: methodological issues in investigating current change
- 3 Recent shifts with three nonfinite verbal complements in English: data from the 100-million-wordTimecorpus (1920s–2000s)
- 4 Verb structures in twentieth-century British English
- 5 Nominalizing the verb phrase in academic science writing
- 6 The verb phrase in contemporary Canadian English
- 7 Recent change and grammaticalization
- 8 The progressive verb in modern American English
- 9 I was just reading this article– on the expression of recentness and the English past progressive
- 10 Bare infinitival complements in Present-Day English
- 11 Operator and negative contraction in spoken British English: a change in progress
- 12 The development of comment clauses
- 13 The perfect in spoken British English
- 14 Changes in the verb phrase in legislative language in English
- 15 Modals and semi-modals of obligation in American English: some aspects of developments from 1990 until the present day
- Notes
- References
- Name index
- Subject index
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- The Verb Phrase in EnglishInvestigating Recent Language Change with Corpora, pp. 256 - 285Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013
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