Tradition and change in legal English verbal constructions in prescriptive texts /

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Autor Principal: Williams, Christopher, 1952-
Autor Corporativo: ebrary, Inc
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:inglés
Publicado: Bern ; New York : Peter Lang, c2007.
Edición:2nd rev. ed.
Series:Linguistic insights ; v. 20
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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.