English get-passives: reassessing the frequencies across genres

This study investigates the get-passive in American English, with emphasis on its distribution in different text types and its semantic features characterized by co-occurring verbs. The data was drawn from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), i.e. the latest version with eight differe...

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Main Author: Supakorn Phoocharoensil (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 2020-08.
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