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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.

We aim for this page to be a showcase of research in English Linguistics. It will enable members to get in touch with others working on related research topics.

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Standardization of the English language

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The topic of my research is the history of normative English grammar, particularly its contacts with contemporary philosophy of language, rhetoric and poetics.

  • Expires after: 01-01-2525
  • Keywords: Standardization,Historical Linguistics,Historical Sociolinguistics,Language And Culture,Prescriptivism,Grammar Writing

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

19c grammars and grammar writing

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I investigate British and American grammars, grammar writing and their influence on language change of the time, based on corpus studies and my collection of nineteenth-century grammars (CNG).

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

Historical Sociolinguistics Meets Construction Grammar: The Case of Productivity in English

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Aims: (1) increase the explanatory power of CxG by drawing on historical sociolinguistics; (2) learn more about linguistic phenomena in the field of productivity in the history of English.

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.projects.alc.manchester.ac.uk/maryhamiltonpapers/
  • Expires after: 31-12-2022
  • Keywords: Grammar Writing,Historical Sociolinguistics,Language Attitudes,Diachronic Variation,Historical Syntax,Prescriptivism,Registers,Sociolinguistics,Standardization,Text Edition,Variationist Linguistics

Prepositions in English Argument Structure across Time and Space: A Corpus-based Evolutionary Construction Grammar Approach

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The project uses (diachronic) construction grammar and evolutionary linguistics for a comprehensive treatment of English verb complementation from the perspective of prepositions between ME and PD WEs

  • Expires after: 30-11-2022
  • Keywords: Historical Construction Grammar

Phrasal verbs (PhVs) from the viewpoint of Construction Grammar

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PhV-constructions reveal the features of attraction involving new verbs provided the action or motion event is identical, and facilitate and diversify the naming process with the speakers.

  • Expires after: 30-09-2022
  • Keywords: Corpus Linguistics,Cognitive Linguistics,Construction Grammar,Lexicology,Semantics,Phrasal Verb,Coercion,Collostructional Analysis

Exploring probabilistic grammar(s) in varieties of English around the world

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The objective of the project is to understand the lectal plasticity of probabilistic knowledge of English grammar, on the part of language users with diverse regional and cultural backgrounds.

Verb-second

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When the verb does and doesn't come second.

  • Website: walkden.space/research.html
  • Expires after: 01-07-2021
  • 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: 01-07-2021
  • Keywords: Syntax,Corpus Linguistics,Historical Linguistics,Old English,Historical Syntax,Grammar

Nigerian English, Nigerian Pidgin and World Englishes

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I am interested in English grammar, pidgin and creole studies, World Englishes and sociolinguistics. I am willing to learn and develop professionally.

  • Expires after: 31-12-2019
  • Keywords: Grammar,Dialectology,Language Contact,Grammaticalisation,Lexical Variation,Multilingualism,Syntax,World Englishes,Sociolinguistics