In:Grammatical Change in English World-Wide
Edited by Peter Collins
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 67] 2015
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 24 February 2015
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.67.toc
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Table of contents
Introduction
PART 1. Inner Circle Englishes
Diachronic variation in the grammar of Australian English: Corpus-based explorations
At the crossroads of change: Possession, periphrasis, and prescriptivism in Victoria English
Do-support in early New Zealand and Australian English
The progressive in Irish English: Looking both ways?
Cross-variety diachronic drifts and ephemeral regional contrasts: An analysis of modality in the extended Brown family of corpora and what it can tell us about the New Englishes
Passives of so-called ‘ditransitives’ in nineteenth century and present-day Canadian English
Dual adverbs in Australian English
The evolution of epistemic marking in West Australian English
May and might in nineteenth century Irish English and English English
The present perfect and the preterite in Australian English: A diachronic perspective
PART 2. Outer Circle Englishes
Recent diachronic change in the progressive in Philippine English
Linguistic change in a multilingual setting: A case study of quotatives in Indian English
Patterns of regularisation in British, American and Indian English: A closer look at irregular verbs with t/ed variation
An apparent time study of the progressive in Nigerian English
American influence on written Caribbean English: A diachronic analysis of newspaper reportage in the Bahamas and in Trinidad and Tobago
Cultural keywords in context: A pilot study of linguistic acculturation in South Asian Englishes
Recent quantitative changes in the use of modals and quasi-modals in the Hong Kong, British and American printed press: Exploring the potential of Factiva® for the diachronic investigation of World Englishes
The development of an extended time period meaning of the progressive in Black South African English
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