Cross-linguistic Correspondences: From lexis to genre
Edited by Thomas Egan and Hildegunn Dirdal
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 191] 2017. vii, 298 pp.
Hildegunn Dirdal
List of John Benjamins publications for which Hildegunn Dirdal plays a role.
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Subjects Corpus linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
2024 Vocabulary sophistication in children’s L2 school writing International Journal of Learner Corpus Research: Online-First Articles | Article
This paper tests three hypotheses about written vocabulary in child L2 English. Specifically, as children mature, (1) the mean frequency values of the nouns they use increase; (2) the mean frequencies of other parts-of-speech decrease; (3) the use of academic vocabulary increases only in certain… read more
2022 Development of L2 writing complexity: Clause types, L1 influence and individual differences Complexity, Accuracy and Fluency in Learner Corpus Research, Leńko-Szymańska, Agnieszka and Sandra Götz (eds.), pp. 81–114 | Chapter
Recent research on complexity development has demonstrated the need to distinguish between specific types of subordinate clauses and consider L1 influence and individual variation. The present study combines these factors and makes finer distinctions between clause types than usual in complexity… read more
2021 Chapter 4. L2 development of -ing clauses: A longitudinal study of Norwegian learners Beyond Concordance Lines: Corpora in language education, Pérez-Paredes, Pascual and Geraldine Mark (eds.), pp. 75–96 | Chapter
Although -ing clauses are frequent in English, their acquisition has not received much attention, and there is a lack of longitudinal studies and detailed explorations of cross-linguistic influence. This longitudinal case study of five young Norwegian students reveals a developmental sequence for… read more
2017 Chapter 1. Lexis in contrast today Cross-linguistic Correspondences: From lexis to genre, Egan, Thomas and Hildegunn Dirdal (eds.), pp. 1–34 | Chapter