Adverbs ending in -LY in late modern english. Evidence form the Coruña corpus of history english texts

The objective of the present study is to analyse the meaning and function of -ly adverbs in the scientific register, specifically in history texts, across the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, known as well as the Late Modern Period.The sample analysed is from the Corpus of History English Texts...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Álvarez Gil, Francisco
Tipo de recurso: libro
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/116126
Acceso en línea:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/116126
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Adverbs
Lingüística aplicada
Modern English
Applied Linguistics
La Coruña
Corpus
History English Texts
Descripción
Sumario:The objective of the present study is to analyse the meaning and function of -ly adverbs in the scientific register, specifically in history texts, across the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, known as well as the Late Modern Period.The sample analysed is from the Corpus of History English Texts (CHET) one of the subcorpus of the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing.The selection of those centuries is not fortuitous as this period of the language is essential in the development of the scientific register as we know it nowadays.