[Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] 95] • Getting at GET in World Englishes

[Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] 95] • Getting at GET in World Englishes
Authors
Bruckmaier, Elisabeth
Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Date
2017-07-15T00:00:00+00:00
Size
7.82 MB
Lang
en
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Despite its exceptional frequency, GET has so far gone largely unnoticed in linguistic analysis. The present corpus-based study closes this research gap by dealing with over 11,600 tokens of GET in written and spoken English. It not only offers a comprehensive semasiological-syntactic analysis of this extremely versatile verb, but also contributes to the understanding of factors that are at work in variation in World Englishes.