Michael P. Wherrity
List of John Benjamins publications for which Michael P. Wherrity plays a role.
Articles
2008 Pressing -ing into service: I don't want you coming around here any more The Dynamics of Linguistic Variation: Corpus evidence on English past and present, Nevalainen, Terttu, Irma Taavitsainen, Päivi Pahta and Minna Korhonen (eds.), pp. 85–97 | Article
In this paper we focus on a common construction which has received relatively little attention to date in the literature, namely, want [NP Ving] as in I don’t want you coming around here anymore. Recent British newspaper corpora suggest that this construction is becoming increasingly popular among… read more
2002 Celtic Sense in Saxon Garb Signal, Meaning, and Message: Perspectives on sign-based linguistics, Reid, Wallis, Ricardo Otheguy and Nancy Stern (eds.), pp. 257–271 | Article