Verbal Forms In Specialized Written Discourse
The frequency and the distribution of verbal forms are analyzed in eleven professional texts for six fields of transport and traffic engineering, in a corpus of 7,215 lexemes. The analysis shows that passive forms, for example, occur far less than active forms. Certain functions and meanings of the...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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2012-12-01
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Series: | Romanian Journal of English Studies |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/v10319-012-0004-0 |