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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

Variation in English World-Wide

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Corpus-based studies on morphosyntactic variation in Englishes

  • Website: http://view0.webs.uvigo.es/
  • Expires after: 01-01-2525
  • Keywords: World Englishes,Variationist Linguistics,Sociolinguistics,Registers,Corpus Linguistics

Comparative sociolinguistics

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Comparative analysis across multiple regional dialects of English

  • Expires after: 01-01-2200
  • Keywords: Regional Dialects,Comparative Sociolinguistics

Constructing discursive opposition: a corpus study of negation in Ta-Nehisi Coates's discourse on race

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I am a PhD student in English linguistics at the University of Bergen (Norway). My research focuses on negation strategies in oppositional discourse, specifically anti-racist discourse.

  • Expires after: 31-07-2026
  • Keywords: Corpus Linguistics,Discourse Analysis,Sociolinguistics,Pragmatics

Geospatial Linguistics

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Modelling language variation and change in local populations using geo-referenced social media language data

  • Expires after: 01-10-2025
  • Keywords: Geographical Variation,Language Change,Variationist Linguistics,Sociolinguistics,Online Language

Weak verbs in old Northumbrian

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My PhD project investigates the old Northumbrian weak verbal paradigm, specifically the morphology of weak verbs 2. Data collected from the interlinear glosses to the Lindisfarne & Rushworth Gospels.

  • Expires after: 30-04-2025
  • Keywords: Old English,Language Contact,English Historical Linguistics,Diachronic Linguistics,Historical Sociolinguistics,Language Change,Mixed-Effects Modelling,Morphology,Middle English,History Of English,Philology,Sociolinguistics,Quantitative Methods

Creole and English in a British Overseas Territory Language Variations and Language Attitudes in 21st Century Anguilla

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One’s aim is to perform an in-depth sociolinguistic analysis of Anguillians' use of and attitudes towards their native language as well as their outlook on other varieties of English.

  • Website: www.hpsl-linguistics.org/user/784/
  • Expires after: 30-04-2025
  • Keywords: Caribbean Englishes,Corpus Linguistics,Sociolinguistics,Dialectology,World Englishes,Dialect Typology

The censorship of swearwords in standard English

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I am interested in analyzing the use of curse words across sociolinguistic variations, and the motives for their censorship despite being frequently heard in oral and written standard speech.

  • Expires after: 01-04-2024
  • Keywords: Swear Words,Prescriptivism,Cognitive Sociolinguistics,Sociolinguistics,Lexicology

Historical sociolinguistic analysis of Australian English

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With a particular focus on the small isolated settler population of 19th-century Western Australia, I am looking at evidence of early Australian English dialect formation in texts 'from below'

  • Expires after: 31-01-2024
  • Keywords: Historical Sociolinguistics,Historical Linguistics,Historical Pragmatics,History Of English,Diachronic World Englishes,Written Language

Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers

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Collaborative research project on a (mainly) 18C archive, involving network relations, verbal syntax, and other literary and linguistic strands.

Socio-historical development of the SKT constructions

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My current research focuses on the usage of sort/kind/type of constructions in the Corpus of Early English Correspondence and explores socio-historical factors involved in their grammaticalization.

  • Expires after: 01-04-2023
  • Keywords: Historical Linguistics,Sociolinguistics,History Of English,Early Modern English,Historical Correspondence,Historical Sociolinguistics

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.

Meow Factor

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language variation in cat-related digital spaces

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