Getting at Get in World Englishes: A Corpus-Based Semasiological-Syntactic Analysis

by Elisabeth Bruckmaier

Despite its exceptional frequency and versatility, GET has never been a focus of research in its entire variability, which goes from lexical to grammatical uses, nor in large amounts of data from different varieties of English. The present corpus-based study deals with over 11,600 tokens of GET in written and spoken language from three varieties of English and thus provides new insights for variationist linguistics. Firstly, it offers a comprehensive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110495996
• ISBN13: 9783110495997
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"