Robin Straaijer
List of John Benjamins publications for which Robin Straaijer plays a role.
Article
2010 Prescription or practice? Be/have variation with past participles of mutative intransitive verbs in the letters of Joseph Priestley English Historical Linguistics 2008: Selected papers from the fifteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 15), Munich, 24-30 August 2008., Lenker, Ursula, Judith Huber and Robert Mailhammer (eds.), pp. 63–78 | Chapter
This paper investigates variation in the usage of be and have with participles of mutative intransitive verbs by the Late Modern English grammarian Joseph Priestley. His usage, as exemplified by a corpus compiled from his private manuscript letters, is compared with a reference corpus and with the… read more