TY  - BOOK
AU  - Williams,Christopher
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Tradition and change in legal English: verbal constructions in prescriptive texts 
T2  - Linguistic insights,
AV  - K213 .W55 2007eb
U1  - 340/.14 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Bern, New York
PB  - Peter Lang
KW  - Law
KW  - English-speaking countries
KW  - Language
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-209) and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2011; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10599982
ER  -