By Professor Bas Aarts, Joanne Close, Professor Geoffrey Leech, Sean Wallis
The chapters during this quantity characteristic new and groundbreaking learn performed via best students and promising younger researchers from worldwide on contemporary alterations within the English verb word. Drawing on real corpus information, the papers contemplate either spoken and written English in numerous genres. every one contribution can pay specific consciousness to the methodologies used for investigating momentary styles of switch in English, with distinct discussions of controversies during this zone. This state-of-the-art assortment is key studying for historians of the English language, syntacticians and corpus linguists.
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One reason for this is that in speech we very often say neither [will] nor [shall], but just [’ll]: I’ll see you to‐morrow, we’ll meet you at the station, John’ll get it for you. We cannot use this weak form in all positions (not at the end of a phrase, for example), but we use it very often; and, whatever its historical origin may have been (probably from will), we now use it indiscriminately as a weak form for either shall or will; and very often the speaker could not tell you which he had intended.
05 error level, so we are justified in claiming that our experiment obtains a significantly stronger result than that obtained using Mair and Leech’s method for written data. However, it is not clear whether this fact derives from the exclusion of ‘knock‐out’ contexts, a focus on spoken rather than written material, or simply the different ways in which the corpora were sampled. To investigate this, we modify the experimental design in a series of steps and repeat the separability analysis. First, we apply Mair and Leech’s data collection method to DCPSE.
First we look at an approach which measures change in the progressive construction using normalised frequency counts. 1. 48% Note. In this table and the tables below, d % is cited with a 95 per cent confidence interval indicated by the ‘±’ value. measure which investigates frequency changes as a percentage of the total number of VPs. 3 considers changes within a set of variants. 1 Changes in frequency per million words Leech (2003) and Smith (2003b) both investigate changes in the modal system of English.