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Tradition and change in legal English verbal constructions in prescriptive texts / by Williams, Christopher, 1952-

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.…”
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