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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rissanen, Matti.

Kytö, Merja.

Heikkonen, Kirsi, 1962-

Series:

Topics in English linguistics ; 23.

Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] ; 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Early modern, 1500-1700--Discourse analysis.

English language.

English language--Early modern, 1500-1700--Variation.

English language--Early modern, 1500-1700--Style.

Literary form.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (381 pages)

Edition:

Reprint 2011

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

No detailed description available for "English in Transition".

Contents:

Front matter

Preface

Contents

List of abbreviations

Introduction / Rissanen, Matti / Kilpiö, Matti / Kytö, Merja / Meurman-Solin, Anneli / Nevanlinna, Saara / Pahta, Päivi / Taavitsainen, Irma

Be/have + past participle: The choice of the auxiliary with intransitives from Late Middle to Modern English / Kytö, Merja

On the forms and functions of the verb be from Old to Modern English / Kilpiö, Matti

Re-phrasing in Early English: The use of expository apposition with an explicit marker from 1350 to 1710 / Pahta, Päivi / Nevanlinna, Saara

Genre conventions: Personal affect in fiction and non-fiction in Early Modern English / Taavitsainen, Irma

Towards reconstructing a grammar of point of view: Textual roles of adjectives and open-class adverbs in Early Modern English / Meurman-Solin, Anneli

Bibliography

Index of subjects

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliography of the works found in the Helsinki corpus of English texts: p. [345]-363.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783110811148

3110811146

OCLC:

979603452