Essays about: "labile verb"

Found 1 essay containing the words labile verb.

  1. 1. ”It grew a day of expectation” : A diachronic corpus study on the evolution of the verb grow in British English

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Rosaleena Luokkala; [2019]
    Keywords : grow; labile verb; transitivity; corpus study; diachronic study;

    Abstract : English has an extraordinary number of labile verbs, that is, verbs that can be used both transitively with a causative sense and intransitively with an inchoative sense. This corpus-based study investigates the evolution of the verb grow from exclusively intransitive to labile in British English in the Late Modern English period. READ MORE