Progressives, patterns. pedagogy
Subtitle: a corpus-driven approach to English progressive forms, functions, contexts, and didactics
By: Ute Römer.
Series: Studies in corpus linguistics,; v. 18
Publisher: J. Benjamins Pub. Co.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
Subjects: English language -- Tense.; English language -- Verb phrase.; English language -- Discourse analysis.; English language -- Great Britain -- Discourse analysis.; English language -- Study and teaching -- German speakers.
Description: "This book presents a large-scale corpus-driven study of progressives in 'real' English and 'school' English, combining an analysis of general linguistic interest with a pedagogically motivated one. A systematic comparative analysis of more than 10,000 progressive forms taken from the largest existing corpora of spoken British English and from a small corpus of EFL textbook texts highlights numerous differences between actual language use and textbook language concerning the distribution of progressives, their preferred contexts, favoured functions, and typical lexical-grammatical patterns."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-324) and index.