Review of Smitterberg, Erik. 2021. Syntactic Change in Late Modern English: Studies on Colloquialization and Densification. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

ISBN: 978-1-108-56498-4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108564984

Keywords: syntactic change, colloquialization, densification, Late Modern English

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Published
2023-05-31
How to Cite
Los, B. (2023). Review of Smitterberg, Erik. 2021. Syntactic Change in Late Modern English: Studies on Colloquialization and Densification. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Research in Corpus Linguistics, 11(1), 161-168. https://doi.org/10.32714/ricl.11.01.08