Essays about: "labile verb"
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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 institutionenAbstract : 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
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