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Language change and corpus data - a super-mega free-for-all?

Medium Periodical Article
Medium - part of - (Periodical Copy) (Date) Dec2013 (Volume) 62
Medium (Periodical) E Magazine: the A-level English magazine.
Classif 820 EMA
Subject Language change
Page 37-40
Authors Francis, Gill
Contents

The author shows how corpus data - language as it is really used, collected and captured for study - can reveal the inventive, messy and endlessly fascinating process of language change.

Keywords
Grammar     Grammatical structures     Hyphens     Language