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Variation in English World-Wide

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Corpus-based studies on morphosyntactic variation in Englishes

  • Website: http://view0.webs.uvigo.es/
  • Expires after: 01-01-2525
  • Keywords: World Englishes,Variationist Linguistics,Sociolinguistics,Registers,Corpus Linguistics

Statistical methods of data analysis in Applied Linguistics research

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Statistical methods of data analysis in Applied Linguistics research, new approaches to analysing and interpreting linguistics data, R statistical package, models of research design and statistics

  • Expires after: 01-01-2080
  • Keywords: Statistical Methods Of Data Analysis In Applied Li,New Approaches To Analysing And Interpreting Lingu,Data Analysis With R,Models Of Research Design And Statistics,Corpus Linguistics

Analysis of syntactic /grammatical complexity measures in academic and non-academic discourse

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My current research is about the analysis of syntactic/ grammatical complexity measures in academic and non-academic discourses using corpus linguistics methodologies and techniques.

  • Website: www.researchgate.net/profile/Maryam_Nasseri
  • Expires after: 01-01-2080
  • Keywords: Syntactic Complexity,Syntactic Complexity Measures,Academic Writing,First And Second Language Acquisition,Complexity,Corpus Linguistics,Grammar Writing,Syntax,Statistical Methods Of Syntactic Analysis

Analysis of lexical complexity measures in academic and non-academic discourses

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Analysis of different sets of lexical complexity measures including lexical density, lexical diversity/variation, lexical sophistication and lexical richness measures, methods of analysis, statistics

  • Website: www.researchgate.net/profile/Maryam_Nasseri
  • Expires after: 01-01-2080
  • Keywords: Lexical Complexity,Lexical Complexity Measures,Complexity,Lexical Density,Lexical Diversity,Lexical Variation,Lexical Sophistication,Lexical Richness,Linguistic Complexity,Corpus Linguistics,Academic Writing,First And Second Language Acquisition,Lexicology,Statistical Methods Of Lexical Analysis

Variation and Change in English

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Grammatical and phonological variation in past and present varieties of English; functional conditioning; based on linguistic corpora and text databases; with a focus on quantitative methodologies.

  • Expires after: 31-12-2030
  • Keywords: Alternations,Constraints On Variation,Corpus Linguistics,Diachronic Variation,Historical Linguistics,Language Change,Phonology,Quantitative Methods,Variationist Linguistics,World Englishes,Grammar

Language variation in a multilingual-multicultural space

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This is my PhD project at ANU. Find more:

Sociolinguistic typology

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What is the diachronic effect of shifts in population makeup on language structure? And how can this be investigated in historical corpora?

  • Website: https://www.ling.uni-konstanz.de/en/walkden/starfish/
  • Expires after: 01-07-2030
  • Keywords: Sociolinguistics,First And Second Language Acquisition,Historical Linguistics,Corpus Linguistics,L2,Historical Syntax,History Of English,Diachronic Linguistics,Language Change,Language Contact,Syntactic Complexity

The BE-passive in Gibraltar English

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The study of the BE-passive in Gibraltar English, with a focus on grammatical variation, socio-cultural pragmatics and language contact.

  • Website: view0.webs.uvigo.es/team/marina-perez
  • Expires after: 31-05-2029
  • Keywords: Corpus Linguistics,Dialectology,Grammatical Variation,Language Contact,Language Identity,Pragmatics,Sociolinguistics,Synchronic Linguistics,Syntax,World Englishes

Verb-second

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When the verb does and doesn't come second.

  • Website: walkden.space/research.html
  • Expires after: 01-07-2028
  • Keywords: Syntax,Historical Linguistics,Corpus Linguistics,Old English,Middle English,Historical Syntax,Grammar

Null subjects

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Is the subject expressed, or not?

  • Website: walkden.space/research.html
  • Expires after: 01-07-2028
  • Keywords: Syntax,Corpus Linguistics,Historical Linguistics,Old English,Historical Syntax,Grammar

Letter writing in Late Modern English

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Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers. A window onto eighteenth-century life, literature and language

  • Website: https://www.maryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk/about/
  • Expires after: 31-12-2027
  • Keywords: Grammar Writing,Historical Sociolinguistics,Language Attitudes,Diachronic Variation,Prescriptivism,Standardization,Variationist Linguistics,Corpus Linguistics,Historical Correspondence,Pragmatics,Social Network Analysis,Socio-historical Linguistics

PhD Topic (Working Title): What’s in a Blurb - A Linguistic Analysis of Gender Representation in Blurbs of Children’s Books

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In my PhD thesis I am looking at blurbs of children's books and how different linguistic realisations might reflect a protagonist's gender.

  • Expires after: 30-09-2027
  • Keywords: Language And Gender,Corpus Linguistics,Language And Advertising,Annotation,Corpus-assisted Critical Discourse Analysis,Cultural Linguistics,Digital Humanities,English,Language Learning,Written Language

Constructing discursive opposition: a corpus study of negation in Ta-Nehisi Coates's discourse on race

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I am a PhD student in English linguistics at the University of Bergen (Norway). My research focuses on negation strategies in oppositional discourse, specifically anti-racist discourse.

  • Expires after: 31-07-2026
  • Keywords: Corpus Linguistics,Discourse Analysis,Sociolinguistics,Pragmatics

Speech acts of advice in online communication

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In examining how health information is conveyed among non-specialists, social media posts are examined to show how indirect speech acts of advice are conveyed via internet memes about health.

  • Expires after: 16-03-2026
  • Keywords: Speech Acts,Corpus Linguistics,Vernacular Health Discourse,Advice Giving,Computer Mediated Communication,Internet Memes,Polysemy,Causality

Corpus of American Discourses on Health (CADOH)

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Focusing on how health information is conveyed among non-specialists, the corpus contains written texts, spoken dialog transcripts, and online posts related to food and health.

English-Spanish corpus-based contrastive studies

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My main research interests are in contrastive analysis, translation studies, and English for Specific Purposes.

  • Website: https://actres.unileon.es
  • Expires after: 01-02-2026
  • Keywords: Corpus Linguistics,Translation,Corpus-assisted Critical Discourse Analysis

Shaping culture and ethnicity through humor: A sociopragmatic analysis of the 21st century migrant comedians in U.S. and Spain

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This predoctoral research project aims to analyze the stand-up comedy genre within verbal humor. It is based on the ICER-UP corpus, containing 20 shows performed by migrants comedians.

  • Expires after: 01-11-2025
  • Keywords: Pragmatics,Discourse Analysis,Corpus Linguistics,Cognitive Linguistics

metaphors of olfactory verbs in English

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I am working on the diachrony of olfactory verbs in English for my PhD research.

Discourses of Religion in early modern Britain: lexicons of controversy and conflict

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What are the ‘keywords’ to be found in anglophone works of religious controversy, instruction and devotion during the medieval and early modern periods?

  • Expires after: 01-08-2025
  • Keywords: Corpus Linguistics,Diachronic Linguistics,English Historical Linguistics,Cultural Linguistics,History Of Scots,Lexicology

Creole and English in a British Overseas Territory Language Variations and Language Attitudes in 21st Century Anguilla

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One’s aim is to perform an in-depth sociolinguistic analysis of Anguillians' use of and attitudes towards their native language as well as their outlook on other varieties of English.

  • Website: www.hpsl-linguistics.org/user/784/
  • Expires after: 30-04-2025
  • Keywords: Caribbean Englishes,Corpus Linguistics,Sociolinguistics,Dialectology,World Englishes,Dialect Typology

Corpus Linguistics

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I build Islamic Sermon Online and try to analyse linguistic features using corpus linguistics tools

  • Expires after: 30-09-2021
  • Keywords: Corpus Linguistics,Pragmatics,Discourse Analysis