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Linguistic Data Science and the English Passive: Modeling Diachronic Developments and Regional Variation

By Axel Bohmann, Mikko Laitinen (Editor), Julia Müller, Martin Schweinberger (Editor), Mirka Honkanen, Miriam Neuhausen
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By Axel Bohmann, Mikko Laitinen (Editor), Julia Müller, Martin Schweinberger (Editor), Mirka Honkanen, Miriam Neuhausen
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The choice between BE and GET as auxiliary verbs, as in “She was promoted” vs “She got promoted”, is a central, grammatical feature, yet the many proposed nuances conditioning this phenomenon have escaped large-scale empirical validation to date. This book fills this gap, using multivariate statistical analyses of several large corpora to explore different factors determining the choice of English passive auxiliary.

Addressing both diachronic developments (using the Corpus of Historical Amer...

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