Lexical-grammatical patterns in spoken English: The case of the progressive with future time reference

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 297-333

  Nesselhauf, Nadja ^a   Römer, Ute ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Corpus driven analysis; Future time reference; Lexical grammar; Pattern frequency; Progressives; Spoken English

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249158648     PISSN: 13846655     EISSN: 15699811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.12.3.02nes     Document Type: Article

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