English in Transition: Corpus-Based Studies in Linguistic Variation and Genre Styles

Table of contents :
Introduction / Matti Rissanen, Matti Kilpio and Merja Kyto [and others] --
Be/have + past participle: The choice of the auxiliary with intransitives from Late Middle to Modern English / Merja Kyto --
On the forms and functions of the verb be from Old to Modern English / Matti Kilpio --
Re-phrasing in Early English: The use of expository apposition with an explicit marker from 1350 to 1710 / Paivi Pahta and Saara Nevanlinna --
Genre conventions: Personal affect in fiction and non-fiction in Early Modern English / Irma Taavitsainen --
Towards reconstructing a grammar of point of view: Textual roles of adjectives and open-class adverbs in Early Modern English / Anneli Meurman-Solin.