Chris Ryder
List of John Benjamins publications for which Chris Ryder plays a role.
Articles
2018 Register variation in spoken British English: The case of verb-forming suffixation International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 23:1, pp. 1–27 | Article
The aim of this paper is to identify the effect of register variation in spoken British English on the occurrence of the four principal verb-forming suffixes: ‑ate, ‑en, ‑ify and ‑ize, by building on the work of Biber et al. (1999), Plag et al. (1999) and Schmid (2011). Register variation… read more
2017 A diachronic corpus-based study into the effects of age and gender on the usage patterns of verb-forming suffixation in spoken British English Compiling and analysing the Spoken British National Corpus 2014, McEnery, Tony, Robbie Love and Vaclav Brezina (eds.), pp. 375–402 | Article
The aim of this paper is to ascertain the degree to which lexical diversity, density and creativity in everyday spoken British English have changed over a 20-year period, as a function of age and gender. Usage patterns of four verb-forming suffixes, -ate, -en, -ify and -ize, were compared in… read more