Modal verbs in TIME: Frequency changes 1923-2006

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 191-220

  Millar, Neil ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

20th century language change; Diachronic corpora; Genre specific corpora; Magazine language; Modal verbs; Online corpora

Indexed keywords

EID: 68549088924     PISSN: 13846655     EISSN: 15699811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.14.2.03mil     Document Type: Article

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