Book contents
- Late Modern English Syntax
- Series page
- Late Modern English Syntax
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Data sources (corpora)
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: Late Modern English syntax in its linguistic and socio-historical context
- Part I Changes in the VP
- 2 The decline of thebe-perfect, linguistic relativity, and grammar writing in the nineteenth century
- 3 Let’s not,let’s don’tanddon’t let’sin British and American English
- 4 Do we got a difference? Divergent developments of semi-auxiliary(have) got (to)in British and American English
- 5 From contraction to construction? The recent life of’ll
- 6 Books that sell– mediopassives and the modification ‘constraint’
- Part II Changes in the NP
- Part III Changes in complementation patterns
- Part IV Category change
- Part V The syntax–pragmatics interface
- Part VI Text-type related change
- Part VII Language contact and syntactic change
- References
- Author index
- Subject index
3 - Let’s not,let’s don’tanddon’t let’sin British and American English
from Part I - Changes in the VP
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Book contents
- Late Modern English Syntax
- Series page
- Late Modern English Syntax
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Data sources (corpora)
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: Late Modern English syntax in its linguistic and socio-historical context
- Part I Changes in the VP
- 2 The decline of thebe-perfect, linguistic relativity, and grammar writing in the nineteenth century
- 3 Let’s not,let’s don’tanddon’t let’sin British and American English
- 4 Do we got a difference? Divergent developments of semi-auxiliary(have) got (to)in British and American English
- 5 From contraction to construction? The recent life of’ll
- 6 Books that sell– mediopassives and the modification ‘constraint’
- Part II Changes in the NP
- Part III Changes in complementation patterns
- Part IV Category change
- Part V The syntax–pragmatics interface
- Part VI Text-type related change
- Part VII Language contact and syntactic change
- References
- Author index
- Subject index
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- Late Modern English Syntax , pp. 38 - 55Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014