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Change in Contemporary English
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Author(s):
Geoffrey Leech
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Marianne Hundt
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Christian Mair
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Nicholas Smith
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2009
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Cambridge University Press
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9780511642210
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2009
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2009
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10.1017/CBO9780511642210
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Book chapters
pp. xix
Preface
pp. 1
Introduction: ‘grammar blindness’ in the recent history of English?
pp. 24
Comparative corpus linguistics: the methodological basis of this book
pp. 51
The subjunctive mood
pp. 71
The modal auxiliaries
pp. 91
The so-called semi-modals
pp. 118
The progressive
pp. 144
The passive voice
pp. 166
Take or have a look at a corpus? Expanded predicates in British and American English
pp. 181
Non-finite clauses
pp. 206
The noun phrase
pp. 236
Linguistic and other determinants of change
pp. 273
The composition of the Brown Corpus
pp. 276
The C8 tagset used for part-of-speech tagging of the four corpora
pp. 281
Additional statistical tables and charts
pp. 314
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