Prelim pages

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. New perspectives
5. Competing future constructions and the Complexity Principle 9
6. Diachronic learner corpus research 41
7. Rhoticity in Southern New Zealand English 69
8. Revisiting old debates
9. “I’m putting some salt in my sandwich”. 93
10. Determinants of exaptation in Verb-Object predicates in the transition from Late Middle English to Early Modern English 133
11. Recent changes in spoken British English in verbal and nominal constructions 173
12. “Oh yeah, one more thing: It’s gonna be huge.” 197
13. Refinements & innovations
14. Retrieving Twitter argumentation with corpus queries and discourse analysis 229
15. MuPDAR for corpus-based learner and variety studies 257
16. A data-driven approach to finding significant changes in language use through time series analysis 285
17. Index 319