A Corpus-Based Diachronic Study of a Change in the Use of Non-Finite Clauses in Written English
Occasional notes in secondary literature suggest that there is a growing tendency to use non-finite clauses in written English. It is partly attributed to the fact that during the process of historical development the English finite verb has lost much of its dynamism and the nominal elements of pred...
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| Language: | English |
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Charles University
2017-07-01
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| Series: | Prague Journal of English Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/pjes-2017-0009 |