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