If I Had 'Have' Been… on the Web

The paper looks at the nonstandard, so called ‘plupluperfect’, construction If [Subject] had have [past particple]. Based on inquiries in WebCorp and the BNC and COCA, the paper shows the relative incidence of this construction in the available corpora. The investigation concludes that the construc...

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Main Authors: Nadina Cehan, Anca Cehan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Press 2012-12-01
Series:Linguaculture
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Online Access:https://journal.linguaculture.ro/index.php/home/article/view/21

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