ISLE Research Network

Members of ISLE can choose to create a brief profile of their current research activities for publication on our website. Each profile may contain up to 5 'themes', and each theme may include any number of keywords.

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Description	Semantics	Kwd:1 Text:2
	Cognitively plausible models of semantics, especially those that can be modelled mathematically.
	Linguistic Theories  Semantics
Description	Prosody: Semantics and Pragmatics	Kwd:1 Text:1
	Investigating the meaning of prosody and its contribution to utterance meaning, particularly focusing on the interaction of conceptual and procedural meaning.
	Pragmatics  Prosody  Semantics
Description	the semantics/pragmatics interface	Kwd:1 Text:1
	series of workshops organised at Lille 3 in 2012-3
	Pragmatics  Semantics  Text/Corpus Linguistics
Description	Acquisition of Turkish	Kwd:1 Text:0
	My M.A thesis focuses on the conceptual development and suppression in the acquisition of Turkish as a first language, from a cognitive perspective.
	Cognitive Science  Cognitive Semantics  Language Acquisition  Pragmatics  Psycholinguistics  Semantics
Description	Reaction Object Constructions in English	Kwd:1 Text:0
	Processes of Transitivization in English: Reaction Object Constructions and other nonsubcategorized objects
	Historical Linguistics  Morphology  Pragmatics  Semantics  Syntax  Text/Corpus Linguistics
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Description	English question tags	Kwd:1 Text:0
	My work (consisting of one book and several articles in French) deals with utterances that contain finite question tags in English. It is based on a corpus of both written and oral English.
	Phonology  Semantics  Syntax  Text/Corpus Linguistics
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Description	Derivation in Middle English	Kwd:1 Text:0
	My PhD dissertation (completed) offers a corpus-linguistic description of the development of the English derivational system between c.1150 and 1500 with reference to text type and regional variation
	Historical Linguistics  Morphology  Semantics  Text/Corpus Linguistics
Description	Past and perfect in Nigerian English	Kwd:1 Text:0
	When do speakers of Nigerian English use the past and when the perfect? How does that compare to usage in other varieties of English? (based on ICE-Nig, currently being compiled)
	Pragmatics  Semantics  Syntax  Text/Corpus Linguistics
Description	Exploring the adjective-adverb continuum in LModE	Kwd:1 Text:0
	This project investigates the diachronic development of the English dual-form adverbs in Late Modern English (c.1710-1930) on an empirical basis and from a cognitive-functional perspective.
	Adverb  cognitive-functional approach  Language change  Semantics  Syntax  Text/Corpus Linguistics
Description	Bound words	Kwd:1 Text:0
	We view (many) bound words as grammaticalized collocations. We investigate their natural use and their linguistic classification. We ultimately aim at a formal description of collocations within HPSG.
	Semantics  Syntax  Text/Corpus Linguistics
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