The Progressive in 19th-Century English
Subtitle: A Process of Integration (Language and Computers, 54) (Language & Computers)
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: April 2005
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9789042017351
Subjects: Historical & comparative linguistics; c 1800 to c 1900; English
First sentence: The present work is a corpus-based study of the use and development of the progressive, e.g. are playing in They are playing tennis, in the 19th-century English of England (henceforth "English English").