This book constitutes the first full-length diachronic treatment of the English progressive from Old English to Present-day English, focusing on the crucial pha

The present volume is an empirical, corpus-based study of the progressive in 19th-century English. As the 1800s have been relatively neglected in previous resea

Based on the systematic analysis of large amounts of computer-readable text, this book shows how the English language has been changing in the recent past, and