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‰‰‘่FThe changing of English grammar: insights from standard corpora 1931-1991


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The aim of this lecture will be to show how English - particularly in terms of grammatical usage - has been changing over the period 1931-1991. The evidence comes mostly from corpora of written English, especially the 'Brown family of corpora' modelled on the original corpus of American English, the Brown Corpus. The 'Brown family of corpora' consists of five corpora that match one another in size and sampling, and can therefore be used for tracking the history of the American and British varieties of English during that period. The changes that have been taking place include decline of the use of modal auxiliaries, increasing use of the progressive aspect, increasing use of the genitive, and declining use of wh-relative clauses. Such changes can be tentatively explained in terms of such trends as colloquialization, grammaticalization and Americanization.
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