This book provides the first empirical study of the history and spread of mediopassive constructions. It investigates the productivity of the pattern, the sprea
The Late Modern period is the first in the history of English for which an unprecedented wealth of textual material exists. Using increasingly sophisticated dat
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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
Vita mortuorum in memoria vivorum — volume 5 of the Beyond Language series is dedicated to the memory of Professor Jacek Fisiak, one of the titans in English