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Publication details [#4832]

Hogan, Michael. 1981. Grammatical tenuity in fiction. Language and Speech 14 (1) : 13–19.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
communicative effect | language change | verb phrase
Journal WWW
www.catchword.com/titles/00238309.htm

Annotation

Discusses the rhetorical effects of the be + ing verb construction and claims its popularity is a twentieth century phenomenon.