In:The Dynamics of Linguistic Variation: Corpus evidence on English past and present
Edited by Terttu Nevalainen, Irma Taavitsainen, Päivi Pahta and Minna Korhonen
[Studies in Language Variation 2] 2008
► pp. v–vi
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Table of contents
List of contributors
Exploring the dynamics of linguistic variation through public and private corpora
Part I. Creating discourse11
Introduction
'And so now…': The grammaticalisation and (inter)subjectification of now
Self-repetition in spoken English discourse
Modal adverbs in interaction – obviously and definitely in adolescent speech
Pressing -ing into service: I don't want you coming around here any more
Part II. Moving across varieties99
Introduction
Conversations from the speech community: Exploring language variation in synchronic dialect corpora
The English modals and semi-modals: Regional and stylistic variation
Patterns of negation: The relationship between NO and NOT in regional varieties of English
Verb-complementational profiles across varieties of English: Comparing verb classes in Indian English and British English
Angloversals? Concord and interrogatives in contact varieties of English
South Pacific Englishes – Unity and diversity in the usage of the present perfect
Part III. Levelling out variability221
Introduction
Feature loss in 19th century Irish English
The written wor(l)ds of men and women in early white Australia
The progressive and phrasal verbs: Evidence of colloquialization in nineteenth-century English?
Probabilistic determinants of genitive variation in spoken and written English: A multivariate comparison across time, space, and genres
Her daughter's being taken into care or her daughter being taken…? Genitive and common-case marking of subjects of verbal gerund clauses in Present-day English
Subject index
