Abstracts
Abstracts are listed in alphabetical order according to first author's last name. To view an abstract, check the box next to the name. To download as a pdf, click anywhere on the abstract.
Adel, Annelie and Gregory Garretson
Who's speaking?: Evidentiality in US newspapers during the 2004 presidential campaign
Adel, Annelie
Involvement and detachment in writing: The effects of task setting and intertextuality
Aktas, Nur
Functions of 'Shell Nouns' as cohesive devices in academic writing: A comparative corpus-based study
Albakry Mohammed
Language variation in American journalism: A corpus-based study
Alonso, Isabel and Antonello Maddalena
Exploring the interactive dimension of newspaper editorials: A corpus driven approach
Arai, Yoichi
A corpus-based analysis of some neg-intensifying expressions
Barbieri, Federica
Revisiting the effect of sex and age on quotative use in American English: A corpus-based study
Bartsch, Sabine, Holtz, and Teich
Corpus-based register profiling: The case of mechanical engineering texts
Biber, Douglas, James K. Jones, Mark Davies, and Nicole Tracy
Register variation in Spanish: A multi-dimensional comparison with English, Somali, and Korean
Bondi, Marina and Marc Silver
Emphatics in academic discourse: A cross disciplinary perspective on research articles
Breban, Tine and Kristen Davidse
The development of postdeterminer uses of adjectives: Grammaticalization and semantic shift
Cheng, Winnie
One country two systems: The intonation patterns of extended collocations
Connor, Ulla and Thomas Upton
Understanding the moves of grant proposals: Exploring the role of stance
Cortes, Viviana
Using corpora in the disciplinary writing class
Crawford, William
Is L2 writing like native-English conversation?
Csomay, Eniko
Interactivity in university classrooms: A corpus-based perspective
Culpeper, Jonathan, and Merja Kytö (plenary speakers)
Exploring speech-related Early Modern English texts: Lexical bundles re-visited
Davies, Mark Examining register-based variation in the BNC: The case of phrasal verbs
Drescher, Nancy
Gender and power in the American academic community: A corpus-based analysis of pragmatic meaning
Dylewski, Radoslaw
On the retarded rate of development of early American English: Evidence from verbal morphology with ablaut verbs in focus
Ellis, Nick
From literature reviews to specialized corpora: Individualized corpora for ESP
Facchinetti, Roberta
Exploiting specialized bilingual dictionaries as corpora: The case of DITELI
Fägersten, Kristy Beers
Real language: A corpus study of Hip Hop language
Fillmore, Charles (plenary speaker)
Pie-in-the-sky corpus tools to support semantic parsing
Flowerdew, John
A taxonomy of learner errors in signalling nouns
Flowerdew, Lynne
Corpus analysis of discourse moves in apprentice and professional reports
Forest, Richard
<President> bush is a <?>: Construal of semantic preference within and across discourse communities
Fries, Udo
Sentence length as a style marker in 18th-century newspapers (the ZEN-Corpus)
Garcia, Antonio Miranda, Javier Calle Martin, David Moreno Olalla, Maria Laura Esteban Segura, and Nadia Obegi Gallardo
Towards an automatic vowel length marker and tagger of Old English: A proposal
Garretson, Gregory
The use of translation corpora for grammatical analysis: The case of "of"
Geisler, Christer
Comparing two factor analyses of 19th-century English
Gilquin, Gaëtanelle
Building bridges within and beyond corpus linguistics: Methodological and theoretical issues
Granger, Sylviane and Magali Paquot
The phraseology of EFL academic writing: Methodological issues and research findings
Gray, Loretta and Suzanne Johnson
Distanced relative clauses in academic prose
Rissanen, Matti, Peter Grund, and Merja Kyto
The development of till and until in English
He, Anping
Corpus-based evaluation of ELT textbooks
Hoffmann, Sebastian and Gunnel Tottie
Tag questions in American and British English
Hundt, Marianne
The committee has/have decided ... On concord patterns with collective nouns in inner and outer circle varieties of English
Johansson, Christine
The use of the It-Cleft construction in 19th-century English
Kanoksilapatham, Budsaba
Convergences and divergences of rhetorical organizations: Two comparable corpora of research articles
Kennedy, Graeme
Collocational patterning with high frequency verbs in the British National Corpus.
Kerr, Betsy
Helping advanced L2 learners of French with article choice:indefinite "des" vs. generic "les"
Kimps, Ditte
Constant polarity tag questions: A data-driven typology of core meaning and contextualizations
Kirk, John, Jeffrey Kallen, Anne Rooney, and Orla Lowry
Pragmatics, prosody, and syntax in spoken language corpora
Kjellmer, Göran
Collocations and semantic prosody
Kretzschmar, William
Collaboration on corpora for regional and social analysis
Kübler, Natalie
Corpus-based specialized and transdisciplinary verb phraseology
Lin, Iris
Discourse intonation and functions of questions and responses across genre types in business/professional settings
Mair, Christian
The corpus-based study of language change in progress: The extra value of tagged corpora
Martin, Shawn
Corpus inter corpora: The text creation partnership
Mazzi, Davide
The construction of argumentation in judicial texts: Combining a genre and a corpus perspective
McCarthy, Michael, Anne O'Keefe, and Steve Walsh
" ... post-colonialism, multi-culturalism, structuralism, feminism, post-modernism and so on so forth" - vague language in academic discourse, a comparative analysis of form, function and context
Meunier, Fanny and Celine Gouverneur
Selecting formulaic sequences for instructed EFL teaching : A multi-dimensional approach
Mindt, Ilka
That and zero following adjectives
Ming, Tao
A corpus-based study of the order of demonstratives and relative clauses in Mandarin Chinese
Miranda, Antonio, Javier Calle, and Nadia Obegi
Subordinating uses of 'and' in Old English: A corpus-based analysis
Miranda, Antonio, Javier Calle, and Laura Estaban
Prepositional anastrophe in Old English: A corpus-based study
Moore, Collette
The spread of grammaticalized forms: The case of "be + supposed to"
Mukherjee, Joybrato
Describing verb-complementational profiles of outer circle varieties of English:the case of Indian English
Murphy, Brona and Aisling O'boyle
LI-BEL case: A spoken corpus of academic discourse
Nevalainen, Terttu
Negative concord in 18th-century English: A corpus perspective on social stratification
Peters, Pam
Australian English grammar: Variation across speech and writing
Precht, Kristen
Men and hedging in American conversation
Quaglio, Paulo
The language of NBC's Friends and naturally-occurring conversation: Functional differences
Rabadán, Rosa, Belen Labrador, and Noelia Ramon
The ACTRES Project : Using corpora to assess English-Spanish translation
Rayson, Paul
Keywords are not enough
Renouf, Antoinette
Revisitig the 'corp' in WebCorp
Reppen, Randi
Corpus-based vs. traditional instruction: What's to gain?
Römer, Ute
Real language for real learners: Towards a new concept of teaching grammar
Rudanko, Juhani
Grammatical change in British and American English: A case study with evidence from the Bank of English corpus
Sanderson, Tamsin
Corpus-based approaches to discourse analysis: Rhetorical self-fashioning strategies in academic writing
Santini, Marina
Annotated corpora vs. raw web page collections. Text types, web pages, and linguistic features: Some issues
Schleef, Erik
"Ja. Guten Morgen, meine Damen und Herren." - "Okay - let's get started." Discourse markers and question tags in English and German academic
discourse
Schneider, Edgar
When I started to using BLUR : Accounting for unusual verb complementation patterns in an electronic corpus of earlier African American English
Shehzad, Wasima
Explicit author of scientific discourse: Corpus-based study of the author's voice
Sinclair, John
Too much meaning?: A corpus-driven perspective on language theory
Smith, Nicholas
The divergent paths of the progressive passive in British and American English
Smyk-Bhattacharjee, Dorota
INDIANA: A system for identifying lexial innovations
Tao, Hongyin
"So you can do a lot of things with a corpus? Oh, absolutely!" - An essay on frequency effects on meaning and structure of language
Tavecchio, Lotte
A corpus-based contrastive analysis of English and Dutch sentencing patterns
Van linden, An, and Hubert Cuyckens
The changing distribution of complementation patterns with adjectives (and verbs) of volition
Vaugan, Elaine
Got a date or something? : A corpus analysis of the role of humour and laughter in the workplace meetings of English language teachers.
Warren, Martin
//OH //WOW //: The intonation of listenership in an intercultural corpus
Widdows, Dominic
Pervasive Technology for corpus based research: Distributed data, Search and Collaborative Annotation
Xuan, Weijian, Stanley J. Watson, and Fan Meng
Disambiguating sentence boundaries in biomedical corpus
Yamazaki, Shunji
The comparison of adjectives in Modern English
Zhang, Meilan and Weijan Xuan
Towards discovering linguistic features from scientific abstracts
