International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

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Editor
ORCID logoMichaela Mahlberg | University of Birmingham, UK
Associate Editor
ORCID logoGavin Brookes | Lancaster University, UK
Consulting Editor
ORCID logoWolfgang Teubert | University of Birmingham, UK
Reviews Editor
ORCID logoBeatrix Busse | University of Cologne, Germany
Assistant Editors
ORCID logoViola Wiegand | University of Stirling, UK
Joanne McCuaig | University of Birmingham
The International Journal of Corpus Linguistics (IJCL) publishes original research covering methodological, applied and theoretical work in any area of corpus linguistics. Through its focus on empirical language research, IJCL provides a forum for the presentation of new findings and innovative approaches in any area of linguistics (e.g. lexicology, grammar, discourse analysis, stylistics, sociolinguistics, morphology, contrastive linguistics), applied linguistics (e.g. language teaching, forensic linguistics), and translation studies. Based on its interest in corpus methodology, IJCL also invites contributions on the interface between corpus and computational linguistics. The journal has a major reviews section publishing book reviews as well as corpus and software reviews. The language of the journal is English, but contributions are also invited on studies of languages other than English. IJCL occasionally publishes special issues (for details please contact the editor). All contributions are peer-reviewed.

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ISSN: 1384-6655 | E-ISSN: 1569-9811
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https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl
Latest articles

6 March 2023

  • Dative alternation in Chinese : A mixed-effects logistic regression analysis
    Dong Zhang Jiajin Xu
  • M. McCarthy . 2020. Innovations and Challenges in Grammar
    Reviewed by Beatrix Busse Sophie Du Bois
  • 2 March 2023

  • T. McEnery V. Brezina . 2022. Fundamental Principles of Corpus Linguistics
    Reviewed by Niall Curry
  • 23 February 2023

  • LBiaP : A solution to the problem of attaining observation independence in lexical bundle studies
    Viviana Cortes William Lake
  • “You betcha I’m a ’Merican” : The rise of YOU BET as a pragmatic marker
    Tomoharu Hirota Laurel J. Brinton
  • A proposal for the inductive categorisation of parenthetical discourse markers in Spanish using parallel corpora
    Hernán Robledo Rogelio Nazar
  • 9 January 2023

  • When loanwords are not lone words : Using networks and hypergraphs to explore Māori loanwords in New Zealand English
    David Trye , Andreea S. Calude , Te Taka Keegan Julia Falconer
  • 2 December 2022

  • B. Le Bruyn M. Paquot (Eds.). 2021. Learner Corpus Research Meets Second Language Acquisition
    Reviewed by Li Nguyen | IJCL 28:1 (2023) pp. 120–124
  • 25 November 2022

  • Assessing word commonness : Adding dispersion to frequency
    Mikkel Ekeland Paulsen
  • Things we smell and things they smell like : Communicatively relevant odours and odorants
    Thomas Poulton
  • 14 November 2022

  • Research trends in corpus linguistics : A bibliometric analysis of two decades of Scopus-indexed corpus linguistics research in arts and humanities
    Peter Crosthwaite , Sulistya Ningrum Martin Schweinberger
  • 20 October 2022

  • Corpus studies of language through time : Introduction to the special issue
    Tony McEnery , Gavin Brookes Isobelle Clarke | IJCL 27:4 (2022) pp. 393–398
  • 17 October 2022

  • A comparison of automated and manual analyses of syntactic complexity in L2 English writing
    Quang Hồng Châu Bram Bulté
  • 13 October 2022

  • Towards a corpus-based description of speech-gesture units of meaning : The case of the circular gesture
    Yaoyao Chen Svenja Adolphs
  • 20 September 2022

  • Strategies in tracing linguistic variation in a corpus of Old Irish texts (CorPH)
    David Stifter , Fangzhe Qiu , Marco A. Aquino-López , Bernhard Bauer , Elliott Lash Nora White | IJCL 27:4 (2022) pp. 529–553
  • 9 September 2022

  • “In barbarous times and in uncivilized countries” : Two centuries of the evolving uncivil in the Hansard Corpus
    Marc Alexander Andrew Struan | IJCL 27:4 (2022) pp. 480–505
  • 6 September 2022

  • Volatile concepts : Analysing discursive change through underspecification in co-occurrence quads
    Susan Fitzmaurice Seth Mehl | IJCL 27:4 (2022) pp. 428–450
  • A corpus-based study of anglicized neologisms in Korea : A diachronic approach to Korean and English word pairs
    Eun-Young Julia Kim
  • 29 August 2022

  • Keywords through time : Tracking changes in press discourses of Islam
    Isobelle Clarke , Gavin Brookes Tony McEnery | IJCL 27:4 (2022) pp. 399–427
  • 23 August 2022

  • Register variation across text lengths : Evidence from social media
    Aatu Liimatta
  • 19 August 2022

  • New methods for analysing diachronic suffix competition across registers : How -ity gained ground on -ness in Early Modern English
    Paula Rodríguez-Puente , Tanja Säily Jukka Suomela | IJCL 27:4 (2022) pp. 506–528
  • 8 August 2022

  • Annotating dialogue acts in speech data : Problematic issues and basic dialogue act categories
    Darinka Verdonik
  • 21 July 2022

  • Derivation and semantic autonomy : A corpus study of Polish głowa “head” and its diminutive główka
    Iwona Kraska-Szlenk Beata Wójtowicz | IJCL 28:1 (2023) pp. 1–27
  • 18 July 2022

  • Question illocutionary force indicating devices in academic writing : A corpus-pragmatic and contrastive approach to identifying and analysing direct and indirect questions in English, French, and Spanish
    Niall Curry | IJCL 28:1 (2023) p. 91
  • The rise of colligations : English can’t stand and German nicht ausstehen können
    Olav Hackstein Ryan Sandell | IJCL 28:1 (2023) pp. 60–90
  • 17 June 2022

  • J. Egbert P. Baker (Eds.). 2019. Using Corpus Methods to Triangulate Linguistic Analysis
    Reviewed by Laurence Anthony | IJCL 27:3 (2022) pp. 380–385
  • 13 June 2022

  • Lectal contamination : Evidence from corpora and from agent-based simulation
    Dirk Pijpops | IJCL 27:3 (2022) pp. 259–290
  • M. L. Carrió-Pastor (Ed.). 2020. Corpus Analysis in Different Genres: Academic Discourse and Learner Corpora
    Reviewed by Shuqiong Wu | IJCL 27:3 (2022) pp. 386–392
  • 25 May 2022

  • Use words, not constructions! A new perspective on the unit of analysis in collostructional analysis
    Thomas Proisl | IJCL 27:3 (2022) pp. 349–379
  • Exploring the impact of lexical context on word association responses
    Peter Thwaites | IJCL 27:3 (2022) pp. 321–348
  • 20 May 2022

  • Handle it in-house? Learner corpora frequency lists and lexical sophistication
    Ben Naismith , Alan Juffs , Na-Rae Han Daniel Zheng | IJCL 27:3 (2022) pp. 291–320
  • Degrees of non-standardness : Feature-based analysis of variation in a Torlak dialect corpus
    Teodora Vuković , Anastasia Escher Barbara Sonnenhauser | IJCL 27:2 (2022) pp. 220–247
  • 10 May 2022

  • A multi-dimensional comparison of the effectiveness and efficiency of association measures in collocation extraction
    Yaochen Deng Dilin Liu | IJCL 27:2 (2022) pp. 191–219
  • 3 May 2022

  • Haoda Feng . 2020. Form, Meaning and Function in Collocation: A Corpus Study on Commercial Chinese-to-English Translation
    Reviewed by Mehrdad Vasheghani Farahani | IJCL 27:2 (2022) pp. 254–259
  • 29 April 2022

  • Corpus linguistics and clinical psychology : Investigating personification in first-person accounts of voice-hearing
    Luke Collins , Vaclav Brezina , Zsófia Demjén , Elena Semino Angela Woods | IJCL 28:1 (2023) pp. 28–59
  • 26 April 2022

  • A. Stefanowitsch . 2020. Corpus Linguistics: A Guide to the Methodology
    Reviewed by Kevin F Gerigk | IJCL 27:2 (2022) pp. 248–253
  • 13 April 2022

  • Verb form error detection in written English of Chinese EFL learners : A study based on Link Grammar and Pattern Grammar
    Gong Chen Maocheng Liang | IJCL 27:2 (2022) pp. 139–165
  • 14 March 2022

  • The affordances of metaphor for diachronic corpora & discourse analysis : water metaphors and migration
    Charlotte Taylor | IJCL 27:4 (2022) pp. 451–479
  • 9 March 2022

  • The hapax / type ratio : An indicator of minimally required sample size in productivity studies?
    Niek Van Wettere | IJCL 27:2 (2022) pp. 166–190
  • 14 February 2022

  • Universals in machine translation? A corpus-based study of Chinese-English translations by WeChat Translate
    Jinru Luo Dechao Li | IJCL 27:1 (2022) pp. 31–58
  • 31 January 2022

  • The Sociolinguistic Speech Corpus of Chilean Spanish (COSCACH) : A socially stratified text, audio and video corpus with multiple speech styles
    Scott Sadowsky | IJCL 27:1 (2022) p. 93
  • 21 January 2022

  • The syntax and semantics of coherence relations : From relative configurations to predictive signals
    Ludivine Crible | IJCL 27:1 (2022) pp. 59–92
  • (The) fact is … /(Die) Tatsache ist … focaliser constructions in English and German are similar but subject to different constraints
    Marianne Hundt Rahel Oppliger | IJCL 27:1 (2022) pp. 1–30
  • 18 January 2022

  • A. Čermáková M. Malá (Eds.). 2021. Variation in Time and Space. Observing the World through Corpora
    Reviewed by Arja Nurmi | IJCL 27:1 (2022) pp. 133–138
  • 13 January 2022

  • S. Rüdiger D. Dayter (Eds.). 2020. Corpus Approaches to Social Media
    Reviewed by Elen Le Foll | IJCL 27:1 (2022) pp. 126–132
  • 10 November 2021

  • Language and Covid-19 : Corpus linguistics and the social reality of the pandemic
    Michaela Mahlberg Gavin Brookes | IJCL 26:4 (2021) pp. 441–443
  • 27 October 2021

  • Networked discourses of bereavement in online COVID-19 memorials
    Mark McGlashan | IJCL 26:4 (2021) pp. 557–582
  • 23 September 2021

  • A discourse dynamics exploration of attitudinal responses towards COVID-19 in academia and media
    Jihua Dong , Louisa Buckingham Hao Wu | IJCL 26:4 (2021) pp. 532–556
  • Issues

    Volume 28 (2023)

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    Volume 26 (2021)

    Volume 25 (2020)

    Volume 24 (2019)

    Volume 23 (2018)

    Volume 22 (2017)

    Volume 21 (2016)

    Volume 20 (2015)

    Volume 19 (2014)

    Volume 18 (2013)

    Volume 17 (2012)

    Volume 16 (2011)

    Volume 15 (2010)

    Volume 14 (2009)

    Volume 13 (2008)

    Volume 12 (2007)

    Volume 11 (2006)

    Volume 10 (2005)

    Volume 9 (2004)

    Volume 8 (2003)

    Volume 7 (2002)

    Volume 6 (2001)

    Volume 5 (2000)

    Volume 4 (1999)

    Volume 3 (1998)

    Volume 2 (1997)

    Volume 1 (1996)

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