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This collection charts the evolution of grammatical variation in
Englishes from Late Middle English to the present, using corpus
linguistic tools to address divergence and convergence in local and
global perspectives. The book considers both diachronic and
synchronic perspectives in grammatical variation across varieties
of English across the UK, North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.
The volume reflects on the questions of whether patterns of
variation diverge or converge and to what extent catalysts for
change are shared in time and space. Chapters look at different
factors in grammatical variation at both the macro and micro level,
investigating specific linguistic and grammatical features but also
at wider phenomena in contact linguistics, social patterns, social
networks, and media-based corpora. Chapters progress from the local
to the global, all with an eye towards using the latest
methodological approaches from corpus linguistics to shed light on
the affordances of data-informed methods to study grammatical
change and the possibilities for future research. This book will be
of interest to students and scholars in sociolinguistics, corpus
linguistics, and World Englishes.
This book sheds new light on the nature of gerunds in English,
utilizing data from very large electronic corpora in order to
compare pairs of patterns viewed as constructions. It serves as a
contribution to the study of complementation, an under-researched
area of investigation which bridges observations at the
intersection of lexico-grammar, syntax and semantics. As a result,
the reader develops their understanding of the meaning and use of
each pattern within the system of English predicate complementation
as it has evolved in recent times. This book will be of interest to
students and scholars of English linguistics, especially English
grammar.
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