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 …

The Discourse of News Values breaks new ground in news media research in offering the
first book-length treatment of the discursive construction of news values through words and …

Grammatical Complexity in Academic English uses corpus-based analyses to challenge a
number of dominant stereotypes and assumptions within linguistics. Biber and Gray tackle …

" This book describes the most important kinds of texts in English and introduces the
methodological techniques used to analyze them. Three analytical approaches are …

Informality has become something of a contemporary mantra as, from the denim-clad offices
of internet startups to the pages of business reports, we are encouraged to shed old …

This work is designed, firstly, to both provoke theoretical discussion and serve as a practical
guide for researchers and students in the field of corpus linguistics and, secondly, to offer a …

Variationist Sociolinguistics: Change, Observation, Interpretation presents a comprehensive,
intermediate level examination of Language Variation and Change, the branch of …

This book offers a comprehensive linguistic analysis of contemporary US television series.
Adopting an interdisciplinary and multimethodological approach, Monika Bednarek brings …

This article is a survey of quantitative research on the choice between the s-genitive and the
of-genitive in English. It provides a detailed and critical review of the methodological …

Based on the systematic analysis of large amounts of computer-readable text, this book
shows how the English language has been changing in the recent past, often in unexpected …