This book examines developments in the use of the present perfect and the preterite in Late Modern and contemporary English, with a focus on American and Britis

The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguis

The studies in this volume approach English grammatical patterns in novel ways by interrogating corpora, focusing on patterns in the verb phrase (tense, aspect

It is a well-known fact that the area of the present perfect has always been a hotly contested ground, but recent corpus analyses have shown that grammatical va

This book examines the special nature of English both as a global and a local language, focusing on some of the ongoing changes and on the emerging new structur