New trends and methodologies in applied English language research :
[Book]
diachronic, diatopic and contrastive studies
Carlos Prado-Alonso [and others].
New York
Peter Lang,
2009.
348 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Linguistic insights, v. 103
Introduction : exploring new methodologies in English language research / CARLOS PRADO-ALONSO -- Diachronic studies. Please in the nineteenth century : origin and position of a courtesy marker / FÁTIMA MARÍA FAYA-CERQUEIRO -- Genitive variation in late middle and early modern English : the persistence of the s-genitive in the correspondence genre / TEO JUVONEN -- The effects of lexicalization, grammaticalization and idiomatization on phrasal verbs in English : some combinations with get as a test case / PAULA RODRÍGUEZ-PUENTE -- Does it fall short of expectations? on the origin and behavior of the dual-form adverb short/shortly / MILAGROS CHAO-CASTRO --