The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguis

This book examines developments in the use of the present perfect and the preterite in Late Modern and contemporary English, with a focus on American and Britis

It is a well-known fact that the area of the present perfect has always been a hotly contested ground, but recent corpus analyses have shown that grammatical va

This is an innovative study of variation of the English present perfect that offers analyses of interestingly diverse data sets of non-native English and addres