Rissanen Matti, Kytö Merja, Heikkonen Kirsi (eds.) English in Transition: Corpus-Based Studies in Linguistic Variation and Genre Styles

Mouton de Gruyter, 1997. — 382 p. — (Topics in English Linguistics). — ISBN 3110156326, 9783110156324.The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further outstanding research in English linguistics.Matti Rissanen, Matti Kilpiö, Merja Kytö, Anneli Meurman-Solin, Saara Nevanlinna, Päivi Pahta and Irma Taavitsainen
Be/have + past participle: The choice of the auxiliary with intransitives from Late Middle to Modern English
Merja Kytö
On the forms and functions of the verb be from Old to Modern English
Matti Kilpiö
Re-phrasing in Early English: The use of expository apposition with an explicit marker from 1350 to 1710
Päivi Pahta and Saara Nevanlinna
Genre conventions: Personal affect in fiction and non-fiction in Early Modern English
Irma Taavitsainen
Towards reconstructing a grammar of point of view: Textual roles of adjectives and open-class adverbs in Early Modern English
Anneli Meurman-SolinIndex of subjects