This book aims to give an account of how the English language has been changing recently, focusing on the late twentieth century, the written standard language, American and British English, grammatical rather than lexical change, and using the empirical evidence of computer corpora.

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On the syntax of the English verb : with special reference to have a look and similar complex structures

Change in Contemporary English: A Grammatical Study

On voice in the English verb

Konstruktionen aus einem 'Funktionsverb' wie have, take oder give und einem deverbalen Nomen sind im Gegenwartsenglischen sehr geläufig; z. B. He had a rest, Father and I will take a walk, The old woman gave a scream. Dieser Artikel untersucht die Bedeutungsunterschiede zwischen diesen Konstruktionen und ihren Entsprechungen mit einem einfachen Verb wie He rested, Father and I will walk, The old woman screamed. Dabei wird u. a. nachgewiesen, daß jedes der sogenannten 'Funktionsverben' have, take und give seine eigene Bedeutung bewahrt und nicht semantisch 'entleert' ist, wie vielfach behauptet wird.

The phrasal verb type ‘to have a look’ in modern english

Attitudes toward Increasing Segmentalization Complex and Phrasal Verbs in English

This study is designed to analyze the use of nominalization in English translations of Chinese literary prose based on eight English translations of Chinese novels. It follows ‘Lees, R. (1963). The Grammar of English Nominalizations . The Hague: Mouton’ in defining English nominalization as a nominalized transform of a finite verbal form and ‘Mathesius, V. (1975). Selected Writings in English and General Linguistics . The Hague: Mouton’ theory of ‘complex condensation of the sentence’. It describes English nominalization from the formal-syntactic level as adverbial, in the positions of subject and object, condensing a finite clausal structure. In the qualitative analysis, various effects of the use of nominalization are described based on three English versions of the Chinese classic novel Hong Lou Meng . In the quantitative analysis, three general patterns of the use of nominalization are found in the eight English translations of Chinese novels: it is predominantly used as adverbial (as opposed to in the positions of object and subject), in the form of gerundive nominalization (as opposed to derived and zero-derived nominalizations), and in the narrative (as opposed to dialogues). In comparison with nominalization used in some English novels, it is found that nominalization is significantly more used in the English translations of Chinese novels at large.

On the syntax of the English verb : with special reference to have a look and similar complex structures

Citations

Change in Contemporary English: A Grammatical Study

On voice in the English verb

The phrasal verb type ‘to have a look’ in modern english

Attitudes toward Increasing Segmentalization Complex and Phrasal Verbs in English

A corpus-based study of nominalization in English translations of Chinese literary prose

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