This collection of essays sheds new light on the verb in English. The authors illustrate that verbs can only be properly understood if studied from both a theor

In a revision of her doctoral thesis (no date or institution cited), which itself grew out of the project to compile the database Lampeter Corpus of Early Moder

Based on the systematic analysis of large amounts of computer-readable text, this book shows how the English language has been changing in the recent past, and

This book offers original theoretical accounts and a wealth of descriptive information concerning modality in present-day English. At the same time, it provides

This volume features new and groundbreaking research on recent changes in the English verb phrase.