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In Chap. 4, we studied the genre distribution of different clause combining patterns based on the Crown corpus, the BNC, and the COCA. The result shows that different types of clause combining are different in genre distribution, but there are no differences between British English and American English. However, the above research is synchronic. Language evolves over time (Leech et al. 2009). Then, will the distributions of different types of clause combining show any diachronic changes?
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He, Q. (2019). Diachronic Distribution of Clause Combining. In: A Corpus-Based Approach to Clause Combining in English from the Systemic Functional Perspective. The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7391-6_5
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