Current Changes in English Syntax

The Handbook of English Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 318-342

  Mair, Christian ^a   Leech, Geoffrey ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

English syntax; Lexical change; Linguistics; Syntactic change

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890672315     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470753002.ch14     Document Type: Chapter

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