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| Description | The changing VP in present-day British English | Kwd:1 Text:1 |
| In this project we will conduct a large-scale investigation of changes in the (morpho)syntax of the spoken British English verb phrase over a period of 25 years using DCPSE. |
corpus linguistics 
current change
morphosyntax
Syntax
verb phrase
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| Description | Verbs of Emotion and Impersonals in OE and ME | Kwd:1 Text:1 |
| This PhD project of mine is concerned with the links between syntax and semantics of OE and ME verbs of emotion, which often, but not always, occurred in impersonal constructions. |
| Historical Linguistics
Lexicography
Linguistics & Literature
Semantics
Syntax
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| Description | Syntax and information structure | Kwd:1 Text:1 |
| I am studying the loss of information-structural options after the loss of verb-second in English, and a possible connection with the rise of stressed-focus clefts, rare passives, and the progressive. |
| Historical Linguistics
Information Structure
Syntax
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| Description | Count Nouns That Appear Without an Article | Kwd:1 Text:1 |
| Lacking expected morpho-syntax, this form is also pragmatically marked. Besides describing the forms use by native speakers, bare singular NPs can be tapped to help learners master English articles. |
| Applied Linguistics
Pragmatics
Semantics
Syntax
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| Description | Quantifier-Negation Interaction | Kwd:1 Text:0 |
| A corpus linguistic and comparative study of constructions like 'All the bills don't amount to $50' and their three different readings in English and German |
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quantifier
scope ambiguity
Syntax
Text/Corpus Linguistics
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| Description | The development of procedural meanings | Kwd:1 Text:0 |
| The re-cycling of obsolete word order patterns as markers of procedural meanings, from playful expressions like "I kid you not" to the "Says John:...."-construction. |
| Discourse Analysis
Pragmatics
Syntax
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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 | English subordinates | Kwd:1 Text:0 |
| I am interested in the categories of subordinates in English, especially when they overlap and / or when corpus examples tend to be hybrid or ambiguous, as well as in the use of modality (will/would). |
| Syntax
Text/Corpus Linguistics
Typology
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| Description | Data mining tools for analysing annotated corpora | Kwd:1 Text:0 |
| DAMMOC's aims are (1) to identify methods in data analysis and visualisation that are useful for the study of language; (2) to develop these methods into software tools accessible to corpus linguists. |
| Computational Linguistics
Historical Linguistics
Morphology
Sociolinguistics
Syntax
Text/Corpus Linguistics
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| Description | C18: 18th-century change | Kwd:1 Text:0 |
| We carry out pilot studies on the Corpus of Early English Correspondence Extension, CEECE. The results will be published as a book about sociolinguistic variation and change in the long 18th century. |
| Historical Linguistics
Morphology
Sociolinguistics
Syntax
Text/Corpus Linguistics
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