It is a well-known fact that the area of the present perfect has always been a hotly contested ground, but recent corpus analyses have shown that grammatical va

It is a well-known fact that the area of the present perfect has always been a hotly contested ground, but recent corpus analyses have shown that grammatical va

This collected volume brings together a wide array of international linguists working on diachronic language change with a specific focus on the history of Engl

This book examines developments in the use of the present perfect and the preterite in Late Modern and contemporary English, with a focus on American and Britis

Corpus linguistics has become one of the most widely used methodologies across the different linguistic subdisciplines; especially the study of world-wide varie