Tradition and change in legal English verbal constructions in prescriptive texts /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Bern ; New York :
Peter Lang,
c2007.
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| Edition: | 2nd rev. ed. |
| Series: | Linguistic insights,
v. 20 |
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10599982 |
Table of Contents:
- Legal language and prescriptive legal texts
- The linguistic and pragmatic functions of prescriptive legal texts
- Tense, aspect and modality in prescriptive legal texts in English
- The 'world data' corpus
- Verbal constructions in prescriptive legal texts
- The future of legal texts in English and possible effects on verbal constructions.