Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Preface
- Abbreviations and symbolic conventions
- 1 Introduction: ‘grammar blindness’ in the recent history of English?
- 2 Comparative corpus linguistics: the methodological basis of this book
- 3 The subjunctive mood
- 4 The modal auxiliaries
- 5 The so-called semi-modals
- 6 The progressive
- 7 The passive voice
- 8 Take or have a look at a corpus? Expanded predicates in British and American English
- 9 Non-finite clauses
- 10 The noun phrase
- 11 Linguistic and other determinants of change
- Appendix I The composition of the Brown Corpus
- Appendix II The C8 tagset used for part-of-speech tagging of the four corpora
- Appendix III Additional statistical tables and charts
- References
- Index
4 - The modal auxiliaries
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 January 2010
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Preface
- Abbreviations and symbolic conventions
- 1 Introduction: ‘grammar blindness’ in the recent history of English?
- 2 Comparative corpus linguistics: the methodological basis of this book
- 3 The subjunctive mood
- 4 The modal auxiliaries
- 5 The so-called semi-modals
- 6 The progressive
- 7 The passive voice
- 8 Take or have a look at a corpus? Expanded predicates in British and American English
- 9 Non-finite clauses
- 10 The noun phrase
- 11 Linguistic and other determinants of change
- Appendix I The composition of the Brown Corpus
- Appendix II The C8 tagset used for part-of-speech tagging of the four corpora
- Appendix III Additional statistical tables and charts
- References
- Index
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- Change in Contemporary EnglishA Grammatical Study, pp. 71 - 90Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009