ISLE Research Network

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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.

Use your own keywords or choose ISLE member / Linguist List keywords:

Quantitative variationist analysis

Quantitative analysis including mixed-effects modelling in R

  • Expires after: 01-01-2200
  • Keywords: Quantitative Methods,Mixed-Effects Modelling

Variation and Change in English

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

English verb-particle combinations

Diachronic evolution of English verb-particle combinations

  • Expires after: 07-09-2029
  • Keywords: Phrasal Verb,Particle Verb,Diachronic Variation,Quantitative Methods

Critical discourse analysis

In my research, I tend to apply a new approach to critical discourse analysis based on evaluation. I will apply a qualitative-quantitative methods to analyse asylum seekers presentation.

  • Expires after: 31-01-2020
  • Keywords: Appraisal,Critical Discourse Analysis,Corpus Linguistics,Quantitative Methods,Cognitive Linguistics