Late Modern English: Novel encounters
Edited by Merja Kytö and Erik Smitterberg
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 214] 2020. vii, 359 pp.
Erik Smitterberg
List of John Benjamins publications for which Erik Smitterberg plays a role.
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Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics
Articles
2020 Introduction: Late Modern English studies into the twenty-first century Late Modern English: Novel encounters, Kytö, Merja and Erik Smitterberg (eds.), pp. 1–17 | Chapter
2020 Chapter 17. “If anyone would have told me, I would have not believed it”: Using corpora to question assumptions about spoken vs. written grammar in EFL grammars and other normative works Voices Past and Present - Studies of Involved, Speech-related and Spoken Texts: In honor of Merja Kytö, Jonsson, Ewa and Tove Larsson (eds.), pp. 283–300 | Chapter
The aim of this chapter is to critically examine the accuracy of the advice on formal, written grammar offered in EFL teaching materials and other normative works. We use corpus data to investigate the use of four grammatical features often labelled as “informal” or “spoken” and find that the… read more
2012 Colloquialization and not-contraction in nineteenth-century English Middle and Modern English Corpus Linguistics: A multi-dimensional approach, Markus, Manfred, Yoko Iyeiri, Reinhard Heuberger and Emil Chamson (eds.), pp. 191–206 | Article
The present study examines the distribution of not-contracted and uncontracted forms in nineteenth-century English. The results show that the proportion of not-contracted forms increases across the nineteenth century, although there is a great deal of variation along genre lines. The results are… read more
2008 The progressive and phrasal verbs: Evidence of colloquialization in nineteenth-century English? The Dynamics of Linguistic Variation: Corpus evidence on English past and present, Nevalainen, Terttu, Irma Taavitsainen, Päivi Pahta and Minna Korhonen (eds.), pp. 269–289 | Article
The present study, which is based on the CONCE corpus, considers two linguistic features that are characteristic of spoken rather than written production: the progressive and phrasal verbs. The frequency development of these features in nineteenth-century English is examined in relation to… read more