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Universität Zürich
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Martin Hilpert
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Université de Neuchâtel
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New perspectives
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Competing future constructions and the Complexity Principle
Competing future constructions and the Complexity Principle
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A
contrastive outlook
A contrastive outlook
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Olaf Mikkelsen
Mikkelsen, Olaf
Olaf
Mikkelsen
Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
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Stefan Hartmann
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Stefan
Hartmann
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
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This paper presents a contrastive study on the role of syntactic complexity in the choice between different future constructions in English and Norwegian. Previous work on the English future alternation (BE going to vs. will) has shown that going to is preferred in syntactically complex contexts. We replicate this result for English on the basis of data from the Spoken BNC 2014. In addition, we address the question of whether this account can be generalized to another language that shows a very similar alternation, namely Norwegian (skal/vil vs. kommer til å). We use data from the Norwegian Speech Corpus (NoTa) and the BigBrother corpus, showing that syntactic complexity correlates with the shorter form skal here. We take this as an indication that the observed syntactic distribution is actually a side-effect of semantic differences and suggest possible explanations for this.
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Diachronic learner corpus research
Diachronic learner corpus research
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Examining learner language through the lens of time
Examining learner language through the lens of time
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A01
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JB code
883445798
Gaëtanelle Gilquin
Gilquin, Gaëtanelle
Gaëtanelle
Gilquin
Université catholique de Louvain
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This paper argues for a diachronic approach to the study of learner language and provides a first exploration of the evolution of English as a foreign language over the last twenty-five years, relying on a corpus resource specifically designed for the short-term diachronic analysis of learner English. The paper describes some of the challenges involved in creating such a resource and shows how these challenges have been responded to. It then investigates a number of linguistic features, some of them taken from short-term diachronic research on native English, and highlights certain changes, underlining that these may be the consequence of natural linguistic evolution, but also of other factors characterizing the acquisition of a foreign language.
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Rhoticity in Southern New Zealand English
Rhoticity in Southern New Zealand English
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An
acoustic analysis of the QuakeBox database
An acoustic analysis of the QuakeBox database
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A01
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JB code
574445799
Marco Schilk
Schilk, Marco
Marco
Schilk
University of Hildesheim
07
https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/574445799
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Lena Pickert
Pickert, Lena
Lena
Pickert
University of Hildesheim
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https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/802445800
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eng
30
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Though generally considered a non-rhotic variety, New Zealand English (NZE) shows some variation in terms of rhotic vowel colouring, mainly observed in southern New Zealand speakers. The current study uses an acoustic approach to a new audio-visual database, the UC Canterbury QuakeBox (Walsh et al. 2013) to account for variation in the degree of rhotic vowel colouring in southern NZE speakers. Identifying all nurse vowels in the data of eight representative speakers with interview transcripts, auditory perception, and a Praat-based acoustic analysis, rhotic vowel colouring is subsequently rated based on third formant (F3) realization. Results show that southern speakers display rhotic vowel colouring to varying degrees. A mixed-effects model and qualitative interpretation of key speakers further suggest an age-based cline of rhoticity with younger speakers converging on the non-rhotic standard, indicating that this rhotic vowel colouring in Southern speakers may be due to resistance to dialect levelling rather than ongoing differentiation.
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Revisiting old debates
Revisiting old debates
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"I'm putting some salt in my sandwich".
“I’m putting some salt in my sandwich”.
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The
use of the progressive in EFL textbook conversation
The use of the progressive in EFL textbook conversation
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A01
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JB code
783445801
Elen Le Foll
Le Foll, Elen
Elen
Le Foll
Osnabrück University
07
https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/783445801
01
eng
30
00
Previous studies have claimed that the progressive is frequently over- and misrepresented in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) textbooks (e.g. Römer 2005). This paper compares the representation of progressives in the dialogues of nine series of secondary school EFL textbooks (43 volumes) to the Spoken BNC2014. The frequencies, morphosyntactic and functional aspects of progressive constructions, such as contraction, negation, framing and time reference, are investigated. Collostructional analysis is used to explore the lexical associations of the progressive. A number of idiosyncratic uses of the progressive in textbook conversation are highlighted and pedagogical implications discussed. In particular, key conversational discourse-structuring phrasemes in the progressive are found to be critically underrepresented.
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Determinants of exaptation in Verb-Object predicates in the transition from Late Middle English to Early Modern English
Determinants of exaptation in Verb-Object predicates in the transition from Late Middle English to Early Modern English
1
A01
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JB code
522445802
Javier Pérez-Guerra
Pérez-Guerra, Javier
Javier
Pérez-Guerra
Universidade de Vigo
07
https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/522445802
01
eng
30
00
While Verb-Object (VO) is the basic unmarked constituent order of predicates in Present-Day English, in older stages Object-Verb (OV) was the preferred option at least in certain syntactic contexts. This corpus-based study investigates OV linearisation after the loss of verb-second and focuses on morphosyntactic, processing, semantic and textual determinants of the VO/OV variation in the transition from Late Middle to Early Modern English. The findings reveal a shift from OV word order, ruled by systematic predictors in Late Middle English, to an essentially stylistic alternative in Early Modern English, when VO succeeded as the syntacticised organisation in English predicates. Also, in the later period, the postverbal slot was adapted to host constituents functioning as objects, which constitutes an illustration of exaptation.
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Recent changes in spoken British English in verbal and nominal constructions
Recent changes in spoken British English in verbal and nominal constructions
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610445803
Gerold Schneider
Schneider, Gerold
Gerold
Schneider
University of Zurich
07
https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/610445803
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eng
30
00
Starting from a data-driven approach, the current paper compares the BNC1994 spoken to the BNC2014. We first narrow down possible research questions due to differences in the compilation and transcription of the two BNC generations. Then we investigate three robustly detectable changes at the level of lexis and morphosyntax: (1) gender and class differences, (2) the increase of be- and get-passive constructions and -ing forms from the verbal domain, and (3) the increase of noun compounds from the nominal domain. We also focus on the social context in which linguistic changes are embedded: which noun compounds particularly increase; which words are overused by which gender or social class? Technology seems to be a driver in the further advance of the construction of noun compounds, and strong swearing seems to have decreased between 1994 and 2014.
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"Oh yeah, one more thing: It's gonna be huge."
“Oh yeah, one more thing: It’s gonna be huge.”
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On the use of oh yeah in journalistic writing
On the use of oh yeah in journalistic writing
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303445804
Samuel Bourgeois
Bourgeois, Samuel
Samuel
Bourgeois
Université de Neuchâtel
07
https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/303445804
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eng
30
00
This paper investigates the use of oh yeah in written prose found in American journalistic articles using corpus data. It demonstrates that such uses are a recent phenomenon that have risen in frequency starting at end of the 20th century. These new written functions are adapted to the written medium, but still resemble how oh yeah is used in speech. These developments contribute further insights to the changes occurring in journalistic writing. Furthermore, this paper concentrates on how oh yeah is adapted into journalistic writing to inject an interpersonal flair into the articles in which it is used. The timing of these developments also indicates a later wave of change to journalism that has been until now under-discussed.
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Refinements & innovations
Refinements & innovations
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Retrieving Twitter argumentation with corpus queries and discourse analysis
Retrieving Twitter argumentation with corpus queries and discourse analysis
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A01
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JB code
554445769
Nathan Dykes
Dykes, Nathan
Nathan
Dykes
Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nürnberg
07
https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/554445769
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Philipp Heinrich
Heinrich, Philipp
Philipp
Heinrich
Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nürnberg
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https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/806445770
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Stephanie Evert
Evert, Stephanie
Stephanie
Evert
Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nürnberg
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https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/195445771
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eng
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We propose a corpus linguistic approach for retrieving argumentation from tweets about Brexit. We analyse two corpora, one from before the referendum in 2016 and one from early 2019. Our approach is based on the manual development of morphosyntactic corpus queries (in CQP syntax) that target specific argumentation patterns. For the present corpora we have developed 130 queries targeting 34 logical formulae. The paper showcases the query development and presents quantitative and qualitative results on how Brexit-related arguments have changed on Twitter from 2016 to 2019.
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MuPDAR for corpus-based learner and variety studies
MuPDAR for corpus-based learner and variety studies
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Two (more) suggestions for improvement
Two (more) suggestions for improvement
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86445772
Stefan Th. Gries
Gries, Stefan Th.
Stefan Th.
Gries
University of California/Justus Liebig University Giessen
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https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/86445772
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eng
30
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Corpus-based studies of learner language and (especially) English varieties have become more quantitative in nature and increasingly use regression-based methods and classifiers such as classification trees, random forests, etc. One recent development that is becoming more widely used is the MuPDAR (Multifactorial Prediction and Deviation Analysis using Regressions) approach of Gries and Deshors (2014) and Gries and Adelman (2014). This approach attempts to improve on traditional regression- or tree-based approaches by, firstly, training a model/classifier on the reference speakers (often native speakers in learner corpus studies or British English speakers in variety studies), then, secondly, using this model/classifier to predict what such a reference speaker would produce in the situation the target speaker is in (often non-native speakers or indigenized-variety speakers). The third step then consists of determining whether the target speakers made a canonical choice or not and explore that variability with a second regression model or classifier. The present paper is a follow-up to Gries and Deshors’s (2020) and offers additional answers to a variety of questions that readers and audiences to MuPDAR presentations have been raising for a few years. First, I show how MuPDAR can be extended straightforwardly to alternations that involve more than the typically used binary choices; I do so in a way that also addresses another potential challenge and exemplify this with a case study from varieties research. Second, I outline a casewise-similarity approach towards predicting what reference speakers would do that avoids frequent regression modeling problems and exemplify, as well as compare, it to competing alternatives with a case study from learner corpus research.
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A
data-driven approach to finding significant changes in language use through time series analysis
A data-driven approach to finding significant changes in language use through time series analysis
1
A01
01
JB code
9445805
Andrew Kehoe
Kehoe, Andrew
Andrew
Kehoe
Birmingham City University
07
https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/9445805
2
A01
01
JB code
269445806
Matt Gee
Gee, Matt
Matt
Gee
Birmingham City University
07
https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/269445806
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549445807
Antoinette Renouf
Renouf, Antoinette
Antoinette
Renouf
Birmingham City University
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https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/549445807
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eng
30
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This paper conducts a diachronic study of language change in a corpus covering almost 30 years of mainstream UK news text. In our previous studies, several databases were compiled from the corpus, including diachronic records of word frequency, collocation and morphological analysis. Upon user enquiry, our WebCorp Linguist’s Search Engine produced tailored output from these resources. The system was therefore passive, requiring a word or phrase to be specified before querying the databases. The aim now is to extend the data-driven functionality to track the frequency of words in the corpus across time automatically and alert users to statistically significant change patterns. Three tests are employed to find upward and downward trends, sudden jumps in frequency, and seasonal variation.
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Broadening the Spectrum of Corpus Linguistics
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Universität Zürich
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Martin Hilpert
Hilpert, Martin
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Université de Neuchâtel
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New perspectives
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Competing future constructions and the Complexity Principle
Competing future constructions and the Complexity Principle
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A
contrastive outlook
A contrastive outlook
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JB code
312445760
Olaf Mikkelsen
Mikkelsen, Olaf
Olaf
Mikkelsen
Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
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https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/312445760
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547445761
Stefan Hartmann
Hartmann, Stefan
Stefan
Hartmann
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
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https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/547445761
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eng
30
00
This paper presents a contrastive study on the role of syntactic complexity in the choice between different future constructions in English and Norwegian. Previous work on the English future alternation (BE going to vs. will) has shown that going to is preferred in syntactically complex contexts. We replicate this result for English on the basis of data from the Spoken BNC 2014. In addition, we address the question of whether this account can be generalized to another language that shows a very similar alternation, namely Norwegian (skal/vil vs. kommer til å). We use data from the Norwegian Speech Corpus (NoTa) and the BigBrother corpus, showing that syntactic complexity correlates with the shorter form skal here. We take this as an indication that the observed syntactic distribution is actually a side-effect of semantic differences and suggest possible explanations for this.
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Diachronic learner corpus research
Diachronic learner corpus research
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Examining learner language through the lens of time
Examining learner language through the lens of time
1
A01
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JB code
883445798
Gaëtanelle Gilquin
Gilquin, Gaëtanelle
Gaëtanelle
Gilquin
Université catholique de Louvain
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https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/883445798
01
eng
30
00
This paper argues for a diachronic approach to the study of learner language and provides a first exploration of the evolution of English as a foreign language over the last twenty-five years, relying on a corpus resource specifically designed for the short-term diachronic analysis of learner English. The paper describes some of the challenges involved in creating such a resource and shows how these challenges have been responded to. It then investigates a number of linguistic features, some of them taken from short-term diachronic research on native English, and highlights certain changes, underlining that these may be the consequence of natural linguistic evolution, but also of other factors characterizing the acquisition of a foreign language.
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Rhoticity in Southern New Zealand English
Rhoticity in Southern New Zealand English
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An
acoustic analysis of the QuakeBox database
An acoustic analysis of the QuakeBox database
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A01
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JB code
574445799
Marco Schilk
Schilk, Marco
Marco
Schilk
University of Hildesheim
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https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/574445799
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A01
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JB code
802445800
Lena Pickert
Pickert, Lena
Lena
Pickert
University of Hildesheim
07
https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/802445800
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eng
30
00
Though generally considered a non-rhotic variety, New Zealand English (NZE) shows some variation in terms of rhotic vowel colouring, mainly observed in southern New Zealand speakers. The current study uses an acoustic approach to a new audio-visual database, the UC Canterbury QuakeBox (Walsh et al. 2013) to account for variation in the degree of rhotic vowel colouring in southern NZE speakers. Identifying all nurse vowels in the data of eight representative speakers with interview transcripts, auditory perception, and a Praat-based acoustic analysis, rhotic vowel colouring is subsequently rated based on third formant (F3) realization. Results show that southern speakers display rhotic vowel colouring to varying degrees. A mixed-effects model and qualitative interpretation of key speakers further suggest an age-based cline of rhoticity with younger speakers converging on the non-rhotic standard, indicating that this rhotic vowel colouring in Southern speakers may be due to resistance to dialect levelling rather than ongoing differentiation.
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scl.105.p2
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10.1075/scl.105.p2
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Section header
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Revisiting old debates
Revisiting old debates
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eng
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JB code
scl.105.04lef
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10.1075/scl.105.04lef
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131
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7
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04
"I'm putting some salt in my sandwich".
“I’m putting some salt in my sandwich”.
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The
use of the progressive in EFL textbook conversation
The use of the progressive in EFL textbook conversation
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A01
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JB code
783445801
Elen Le Foll
Le Foll, Elen
Elen
Le Foll
Osnabrück University
07
https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/783445801
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eng
30
00
Previous studies have claimed that the progressive is frequently over- and misrepresented in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) textbooks (e.g. Römer 2005). This paper compares the representation of progressives in the dialogues of nine series of secondary school EFL textbooks (43 volumes) to the Spoken BNC2014. The frequencies, morphosyntactic and functional aspects of progressive constructions, such as contraction, negation, framing and time reference, are investigated. Collostructional analysis is used to explore the lexical associations of the progressive. A number of idiosyncratic uses of the progressive in textbook conversation are highlighted and pedagogical implications discussed. In particular, key conversational discourse-structuring phrasemes in the progressive are found to be critically underrepresented.
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scl.105.05per
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10.1075/scl.105.05per
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171
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Chapter
8
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Determinants of exaptation in Verb-Object predicates in the transition from Late Middle English to Early Modern English
Determinants of exaptation in Verb-Object predicates in the transition from Late Middle English to Early Modern English
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A01
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JB code
522445802
Javier Pérez-Guerra
Pérez-Guerra, Javier
Javier
Pérez-Guerra
Universidade de Vigo
07
https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/522445802
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eng
30
00
While Verb-Object (VO) is the basic unmarked constituent order of predicates in Present-Day English, in older stages Object-Verb (OV) was the preferred option at least in certain syntactic contexts. This corpus-based study investigates OV linearisation after the loss of verb-second and focuses on morphosyntactic, processing, semantic and textual determinants of the VO/OV variation in the transition from Late Middle to Early Modern English. The findings reveal a shift from OV word order, ruled by systematic predictors in Late Middle English, to an essentially stylistic alternative in Early Modern English, when VO succeeded as the syntacticised organisation in English predicates. Also, in the later period, the postverbal slot was adapted to host constituents functioning as objects, which constitutes an illustration of exaptation.
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scl.105.06sch
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10.1075/scl.105.06sch
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195
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04
Recent changes in spoken British English in verbal and nominal constructions
Recent changes in spoken British English in verbal and nominal constructions
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A01
01
JB code
610445803
Gerold Schneider
Schneider, Gerold
Gerold
Schneider
University of Zurich
07
https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/610445803
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eng
30
00
Starting from a data-driven approach, the current paper compares the BNC1994 spoken to the BNC2014. We first narrow down possible research questions due to differences in the compilation and transcription of the two BNC generations. Then we investigate three robustly detectable changes at the level of lexis and morphosyntax: (1) gender and class differences, (2) the increase of be- and get-passive constructions and -ing forms from the verbal domain, and (3) the increase of noun compounds from the nominal domain. We also focus on the social context in which linguistic changes are embedded: which noun compounds particularly increase; which words are overused by which gender or social class? Technology seems to be a driver in the further advance of the construction of noun compounds, and strong swearing seems to have decreased between 1994 and 2014.
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JB code
scl.105.07bou
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10.1075/scl.105.07bou
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225
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Chapter
10
01
04
"Oh yeah, one more thing: It's gonna be huge."
“Oh yeah, one more thing: It’s gonna be huge.”
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04
On the use of oh yeah in journalistic writing
On the use of oh yeah in journalistic writing
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A01
01
JB code
303445804
Samuel Bourgeois
Bourgeois, Samuel
Samuel
Bourgeois
Université de Neuchâtel
07
https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/303445804
01
eng
30
00
This paper investigates the use of oh yeah in written prose found in American journalistic articles using corpus data. It demonstrates that such uses are a recent phenomenon that have risen in frequency starting at end of the 20th century. These new written functions are adapted to the written medium, but still resemble how oh yeah is used in speech. These developments contribute further insights to the changes occurring in journalistic writing. Furthermore, this paper concentrates on how oh yeah is adapted into journalistic writing to inject an interpersonal flair into the articles in which it is used. The timing of these developments also indicates a later wave of change to journalism that has been until now under-discussed.
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JB code
scl.105.p3
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10.1075/scl.105.p3
227
Section header
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Refinements & innovations
Refinements & innovations
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eng
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01
JB code
scl.105.08dyk
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10.1075/scl.105.08dyk
228
255
28
Chapter
12
01
04
Retrieving Twitter argumentation with corpus queries and discourse analysis
Retrieving Twitter argumentation with corpus queries and discourse analysis
1
A01
01
JB code
554445769
Nathan Dykes
Dykes, Nathan
Nathan
Dykes
Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nürnberg
07
https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/554445769
2
A01
01
JB code
806445770
Philipp Heinrich
Heinrich, Philipp
Philipp
Heinrich
Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nürnberg
07
https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/806445770
3
A01
01
JB code
195445771
Stephanie Evert
Evert, Stephanie
Stephanie
Evert
Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nürnberg
07
https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/195445771
01
eng
30
00
We propose a corpus linguistic approach for retrieving argumentation from tweets about Brexit. We analyse two corpora, one from before the referendum in 2016 and one from early 2019. Our approach is based on the manual development of morphosyntactic corpus queries (in CQP syntax) that target specific argumentation patterns. For the present corpora we have developed 130 queries targeting 34 logical formulae. The paper showcases the query development and presents quantitative and qualitative results on how Brexit-related arguments have changed on Twitter from 2016 to 2019.
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scl.105.09gri
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10.1075/scl.105.09gri
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283
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Chapter
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04
MuPDAR for corpus-based learner and variety studies
MuPDAR for corpus-based learner and variety studies
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04
Two (more) suggestions for improvement
Two (more) suggestions for improvement
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A01
01
JB code
86445772
Stefan Th. Gries
Gries, Stefan Th.
Stefan Th.
Gries
University of California/Justus Liebig University Giessen
07
https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/86445772
01
eng
30
00
Corpus-based studies of learner language and (especially) English varieties have become more quantitative in nature and increasingly use regression-based methods and classifiers such as classification trees, random forests, etc. One recent development that is becoming more widely used is the MuPDAR (Multifactorial Prediction and Deviation Analysis using Regressions) approach of Gries and Deshors (2014) and Gries and Adelman (2014). This approach attempts to improve on traditional regression- or tree-based approaches by, firstly, training a model/classifier on the reference speakers (often native speakers in learner corpus studies or British English speakers in variety studies), then, secondly, using this model/classifier to predict what such a reference speaker would produce in the situation the target speaker is in (often non-native speakers or indigenized-variety speakers). The third step then consists of determining whether the target speakers made a canonical choice or not and explore that variability with a second regression model or classifier. The present paper is a follow-up to Gries and Deshors’s (2020) and offers additional answers to a variety of questions that readers and audiences to MuPDAR presentations have been raising for a few years. First, I show how MuPDAR can be extended straightforwardly to alternations that involve more than the typically used binary choices; I do so in a way that also addresses another potential challenge and exemplify this with a case study from varieties research. Second, I outline a casewise-similarity approach towards predicting what reference speakers would do that avoids frequent regression modeling problems and exemplify, as well as compare, it to competing alternatives with a case study from learner corpus research.
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scl.105.10keh
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10.1075/scl.105.10keh
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01
04
A
data-driven approach to finding significant changes in language use through time series analysis
A data-driven approach to finding significant changes in language use through time series analysis
1
A01
01
JB code
9445805
Andrew Kehoe
Kehoe, Andrew
Andrew
Kehoe
Birmingham City University
07
https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/9445805
2
A01
01
JB code
269445806
Matt Gee
Gee, Matt
Matt
Gee
Birmingham City University
07
https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/269445806
3
A01
01
JB code
549445807
Antoinette Renouf
Renouf, Antoinette
Antoinette
Renouf
Birmingham City University
07
https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/549445807
01
eng
30
00
This paper conducts a diachronic study of language change in a corpus covering almost 30 years of mainstream UK news text. In our previous studies, several databases were compiled from the corpus, including diachronic records of word frequency, collocation and morphological analysis. Upon user enquiry, our WebCorp Linguist’s Search Engine produced tailored output from these resources. The system was therefore passive, requiring a word or phrase to be specified before querying the databases. The aim now is to extend the data-driven functionality to track the frequency of words in the corpus across time automatically and alert users to statistically significant change patterns. Three tests are employed to find upward and downward trends, sudden jumps in frequency, and seasonal variation.
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scl.105.ind
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10.1075/scl.105.ind
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Miscellaneous
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Index
Index
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eng
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