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Peer reviewedCollins, Peter C. – World Englishes, 1996
Tests claims regarding "get"-passives in English via interrogation of a set of written and spoken corpora. The data suggest that "get"-passives are often associated with two types of pragmatic implicature. Finally, the corpus provides evidence of three types of variation with 'get'-passives: regional, stylistic, and diachronic.…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Databases, English, Foreign Countries
