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	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
Description	How analytic is the English language?	Kwd:1 Text:0
	This diachronic corpus-based investigation tests whether the typological change of English morphology from synthetic to analytic may be reassessed by including both lexical and inflectional processes.
	Language change  Morphology  Text/Corpus Linguistics  Typology
Description	English articles - variation and change	Kwd:1 Text:0
	The focus of this project is on Late Modern English and different varieties of Present Day Englishes, including contact varieties.
	Corpus linguistics  Historical Linguistics  Syntax  Typology
Description	Rhetorics of Face-Saving Strategies. A Comparative	Kwd:1 Text:0
	This study aims at describing the different face-saving strategies employed by politicians in these two opposite cultures of United Kingdom and Nigeria.
	Discourse Analysis  Pragmatics  Sociolinguistics  Typology
Description	Gendered Structures in English and other Languages	Kwd:1 Text:0
	Hellinger, Marlis & Motschenbacher, Heiko (eds). forthcoming. Gender Across Languages: The Linguistic Representation of Women and Men. Volume IV. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
	Contrastive Linguistics  Grammatical Gender  Lexical Gender  Personal Noun  Typology
Description	Tag questions	Kwd:1 Text:0
	My research focuses on various aspects on tag questions: functional, typological and contrastive aspects. My PhD thesis compares the use of tag questions in fiction dialogue to real-life conversation.
	General Linguistics  Linguistics & Literature  Pragmatics  Syntax  Text/Corpus Linguistics  Translation  Typology
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Description	Global English(es)	Kwd:1 Text:0
	Research focus: convergent and divergent morphosyntactic features of varieties of English in the British Isles and beyond, esp. in African and Asian countries.
	Historical Linguistics  Sociolinguistics  Syntax  Typology
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