Change in Contemporary English (English, Geoffrey Leech | Marianne Hundt | Christian Mair)

About the Book

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, often in unexpected and previously undocumented ways. The study is based on a group of matching corpora, known as the 'Brown family' of corpora, supplemented by a range of other corpus materials, both written and spoken, drawn mainly from the later twentieth century. Among the matters receivin…

ISBN: 9780521867221