The present survey reviews previous work on current change in English syntax. Focusing on
British and American Standard English, and on contrasts between the written and the …

Routledge Applied Linguistics is a series of comprehensive textbooks, providing students
and researchers with the support they need for advanced study in the core areas of English …

Obesity is a pressing social issue and a persistently newsworthy topic for the media. This
book examines the linguistic representation of obesity in the British press. It combines …

Variation within the English language is a vast research area, of which dialectology, the
study of geographic variation, is a significant part. This book explores grammatical …

The spread of English over the past four hundred years has led to the emergence of
transplanted varieties of English in variegated sociocultural and linguistic contexts. While …

The relation between functionally similar forms is often described in terms of competition.
This leads to the expectation that over time only one form can survive (substitution) or each …

This paper investigates syntactic productivity in diachrony with a data-driven approach.
Previous research indicates that syntactic productivity (the property of grammatical …

It has on occasion been observed that the Late Modern English period is the most neglected
period in the history of the English language (Rydén 1984; Denison 1998: 92). Interestingly …

The evolutionary model of New Englishes offered by Schneider posits a uniform pattern of
five diachronic phases that are assumed to underlie the processes inherent in the …

The present paper investigates the emergence of local norms in Indian English at the level
of verb complementation, an area which so far has not attracted much attention in research …