The contributions to this volume apply and extend the techniques of corpus linguistics and diachronic linguistics to the challenge of describing and explaining
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
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This book contains 15 revised papers originally presented at a symposium at Rosendal, Norway, under the aegis of The Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) at the Norw