English corpus linguistics : looking back, moving forward ; papers from the 30th International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora (ICAME 30), Lancaster...

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction: English corpus linguistics -- looking back, moving forward; The grammaticalization and pragmaticalization of cleft constructions in Present-Day English; Interpersonal themes and author stance in student writing; Through seen through the looking glass of translation equivalence: A proposed method for determining closeness of word senses; Semantic patterns of HAVE been to V: Corpus data and elicited data; Differential change in British and American English: Comparing preand post-war data.…”
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New approaches to hedging /

Table of Contents: “…Position and Scope of Epistemic Phrases in Planned and Unplanned American English -- 10. Pragmatic Functions of Parenthetical I Think -- 11. …”
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Historical development of auxiliaries /

Table of Contents: “…Dik -- Auxiliaries and ergative splits : a typological parameter / Eloise Jelinek -- The auxiliarization of the English modals : a functional grammar view / Louis Goossens -- On the use of the modal auxiliaries indicating "possibility" in early American English / Merja Kytö -- Semantic change in modal auxiliaries as a result of speech act embedding / C.J. …”
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Communication across generes and discourses : Sixth Brno Conference on Linguistics studies in English, Brno, 11-12, September 2014 conference proceedings /

Table of Contents: “…DISCOURSAL FUNCTIONS OF IDEATIONAL, INTERPERSONAL AND RELATIONAL IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS (Zuzana Hrdličková) -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The functions of a language -- 2.1 Vocabulary as an analogue of the world -- 3 Classifi cation of idioms from the pragmatic point of view -- 3.1 Ideational and relational idioms -- 4 Functions of idiomatic expressions -- 5 Formal aspects of idiomatic expressions -- 6 Material and methods -- 7 Results and discussion -- 8 Conclusion -- References -- TOWARDS BRITISH OR AMERICAN ENGLISH: TRANSLATION FROM LITHUANIAN TO ENGLISH ACROSS GENRES (Ramunė Kasperavičienė)…”
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Variable properties in language : their nature and acquisition /

Table of Contents: “…/ Norbert Corver -- The acquisition of English article alternations : variation, competition, and the default / Marjorie Pak -- Verb second word order in Norwegian heritage language : syntax and pragmatics / Marit Westergaard and Terje Lohndal -- Acquisition of morphosyntax : a pattern learning approach / Heidi Getz -- How to be faithful to the input in a situation of language contact / Alicia Avellana, Luca Brandani, Hannah Forsythe, and Cristina Schmitt -- Variation and mental representation / Gregory Guy -- Variation and competing i-languages in Creole genesis : a synchronic and diachronic view / Marlyse Baptista -- Transmission revisited / Gillian Sankoff -- The value of small communities in a big data world : investigating Smith Island English in real and apparent time / Natalie Schilling -- All zeros are not equal in African American English / Lisa Green.…”
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Corpus linguistics and variation in English : theory and description /

Table of Contents: “…; Uncovering hidden constraints in micro-corpora of contact Englishes; Hidden structures in English corpora; Automatically exploring lexical tendencies in English; Exemplifying constructions with for example and for instance as markers: A historical account; Modal would as a pragmatic softener in ICE Ireland; "Talked the council out of adopting any resolution": On the transitive out of -ing construction in American English.…”
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Corpus interrogation and grammatical patterns : papers from the 33rd International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora (ICAME 33), Leuven May 30- 3 June...

Table of Contents: “…Corpus evidence from Late Modern and Contemporary English ; 3.1 The Brown quartet of corpora ; 3.2 The Corpus of Late Modern English Texts (Extended Version) ; 3.3 The Corpus of Contemporary American English ; 3.4 The Corpus of Historical American English ; 4. …”
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Recent developments in historical phonology /

Table of Contents: “…The inter-relationship between phonological and grammatical changeSecondary split, typology and universals -- Constraints on schwa-deletion in American English -- Phonological models and Slavic palatalizations -- Restructuring, relexicalization, and reversion in historical phonology -- “Diagonalâ€? …”
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Late modern English : novel encounters /

Table of Contents: “…Morphosyntax: The myth of American English 'gotten' as a historical retention / Lieselotte Anderwald -- Changes affecting relative clauses in Late Modern English / Julia Bacskai-Atkari -- Diffusion of do: The acquisition of do negation by have (to) / Tomoharu Hirota -- A diachronic constructional analysis of locative alternation in English, with particular attention to load and spray / Yasuaki Ishizaki -- Part III. …”
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Who can speak and who is heard/hurt? : facing problems of race, racism, and ethnic diversity in the humanities in Germany /

Table of Contents: “…in German renderings of literary African American English / Annika Rosbach -- Post-racism, colorblind individualism & political correctness: contemporary modes of materialization in American studies and German academia / Courtney Moffett-Bateau and Sebastian Weier -- Kanak academic: teaching in enemy territory / Ismahan Wayah -- The migrant scholar of color as refugee in the Western academy / Mahmoud Arghavan -- Keeping academia white: a case study / Kai Linke -- On racism without race: the need to diversify Germanistik and the German academy / Priscilla Layne -- "So you want to write about American Indians?" …”
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Papers from the 5th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Cambridge, 6-9 April 1987 : dedicated to the memory of James Peter Thorne (1933-1988) /

Table of Contents: “…PAPERS FROM THE 5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENGLISH HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Table of contents; IN MEMORIAM JAMES PETER THORNE 1933-1988 JOHN LYONS; PREFACE; LIST OF PARTICIPANTS; RESTANDARDISATION IN MIDDLE SCOTS; BRITISH AND AMERICAN ENGLISH: ODI ET AMO; THE STYLISTIC FUNCTION OF ME GAN RECONSIDERED; HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS -- LINGUISTIC ARCHAEOLOGY; THE ASSESSMENT OF LEXICAL MORTALITY AND REPLACEMENT BETWEEN OLD AND MODERN ENGLISH…”
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Laboratory phonology 10 /

Table of Contents: “…13; -- Developing representations and the emergence of phonology: Evidence from perception and production13; -- Phonological templates in early words -- Constraints on the acquisition of variation -- A psycholinguistic perspective on the acquisition of phonology13; -- Hard-wired phonology: Limits and latitude of phonological variation in pathological speech13; -- Representation and access in phonological impairment13; -- Intonation structure and disfluency detection in stuttering13; -- Prosodic structure and tongue twister errors -- Commentary on papers:Variation at the crossroad between normal and disordered speech13; -- Phonetic variation as communicative system: Perception of the particular and the abstract13; -- Morphological effects on fine phonetic detail: The case of Dutch -igheid13; -- The variability of early accent peaks in Standard German13; -- Lexical and contextual predictability: Confluent effects on the production of vowels13; -- Modeling listeners: Comments on Pluymaekers et al. and Scarborough13; -- What is and what is not under the control of the speaker: Intrinsic vowel duration13; -- Variation in overlap and phonological grammar in Moroccan Arabic clusters13; -- Variability and homogeneity in American English /244;/ allophony and /s/ retraction13; -- Compensation for assimilatory devoicing and prosodic structure in German fricative perception13; -- Filling the perceptuo-motor gap -- Backmatter13.…”
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A multicultural and multifaceted study of ideologies and conflicts related to the complex realities and fictions of nation and identity represented in contemporary literature writt...

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Corpus-based studies in language use, language learning, and language documentation /

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Corpus-based approaches to register variation /

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