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 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
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
Despite a history of hundreds of years of research analysing aspects of English grammar, there are still open problems which continue to baffle language researc