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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.

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(Socio)Linguistic Effects across Political Borders

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Long neglected as "unimportant" variation, political borders that cut across older dialect zones reveal interesting linguistic and sociolinguistic features that are very "real" for speakers

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

Morpho-syntactic variation and change

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Integrating syntactic theory into variationist analysis of morpho-syntactic phenomena to understand the underlying structure of variation and the processes of change

  • Expires after: 01-01-2200
  • Keywords: Syntax,Variation,Language Change

Discourse-pragmatic variation and change

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Variation and change in the use of discourse-pragmatic features such as question tags; discourse pragmatic effects in relation to syntactic phenomena

  • Expires after: 01-01-2200
  • Keywords: Discourse-pragmatic,Variation,Language Change

Quantitative variationist analysis

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Quantitative analysis including mixed-effects modelling in R

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

Analysis of lexical complexity measures in academic and non-academic discourses

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Analysis of different sets of lexical complexity measures including lexical density, lexical diversity/variation, lexical sophistication and lexical richness measures, methods of analysis, statistics

  • Website: www.researchgate.net/profile/Maryam_Nasseri
  • Expires after: 01-01-2080
  • Keywords: Lexical Complexity,Lexical Complexity Measures,Complexity,Lexical Density,Lexical Diversity,Lexical Variation,Lexical Sophistication,Lexical Richness,Linguistic Complexity,Corpus Linguistics,Academic Writing,First And Second Language Acquisition,Lexicology,Statistical Methods Of Lexical Analysis

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

Variation studies

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I am interested in the interface between variation studies (synchronic and diabronic) and typology, geolinguistics, and psycholinguistics

  • Expires after: 01-01-2030
  • Keywords: Synchronic Linguistics,Diachronic Linguistics,Variationist Linguistics

Geolinguistics

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How can we describe language variation as a function of geographic space?

  • Expires after: 01-01-2030
  • Keywords: Dialectology,Dialectometry,Typology,Dialect Typology

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.

Constraints on syntactic variation: noun phrases in early Germanic languages

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The project (2017-2020) focuses on noun phrase word order in Old English, Old Norse (Old Icelandic and Old Norwegian), Old Swedish, Old High German, Old Saxon, and Gothic.

Attitudes of Nigerian Students towards Accents of English

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The aim of this research is to investigate which variety of English is most likely to act as a marker of linguistic identity in Nigeria.

  • Expires after: 30-09-2020
  • Keywords: Comparative Sociolinguistics,Sociolinguistics,Nigerian English,Variationist Linguistics,World Englishes,West African Englishes

Language Mixing in Medieval England

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The project investigates language mixing in historical documents from medieval England. Its results contribute mainly to syntaxctic theory, comparative hsitorical linguistics and digital humanities

Syntactic Variation in Cape Flats English

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A sociolinguistic approach towards (morpho-)syntactic variation in CFE.

  • Expires after: 01-04-2020
  • Keywords: Comparative Sociolinguistics,Sociolinguistics,Statistical Methods Of Syntactic Analysis,World Englishes,Variationist Linguistics,Syntax,Cape Flats English,South African English

Patterns of conversational interaction in varieties of English

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The project investigates whether Caribbean and Southeast Asian varieties of English exhibit conversational patterns and to which extent these structures can be regarded as culturally sensitive.

Constructional variation

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Usage-based approach to constructional variation across lects and registers

  • Expires after: 01-01-2020
  • Keywords: Construction Grammar,Corpus Linguistics,Cognitive Sociolinguistics

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

English in Late Modern times

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The aim is to take into consideration LModE usage in a range of previously unedited texts, especially as far as popular culture is concerned.

  • Expires after: 31-12-2019
  • Keywords: Historical Pragmatics,Historical Sociolinguistics,Geographical Variation,Early Business Discourse,Early Multimodality,Popular Culture,Entertainment

Abusive Language Online and Trolling

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An examination of the stylistic variation in abusive language online and internet trolling using a novel form of multi-dimensional analysis for short texts.

  • Expires after: 30-09-2019
  • Keywords: Corpus Linguistics,Variation,Multidimensional Analysis

English verb-particle combinations

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Diachronic evolution of English verb-particle combinations

  • Expires after: 28-09-2019
  • Keywords: Phrasal Verb,Particle Verb,Textual Variation,Diachronic Variation,Quantitative Methods

New Englishes

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I´m currently looking into morphosyntactic changes in New Englishes.

  • Expires after: 31-03-2019
  • Keywords: Diachronic Variation,Corpus Linguistics,Grammar,Language Change,Language And Culture,Mass Media,Standardization,Synchronic Linguistics,Variation,World Englishes

A Corpus based Comparison of Variation in Online Registers of Pakistani English

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A PhD study on online and off-line registers of Pakistani English.

Nigerian Newscasters’ English as a Model of Standard Nigerian English

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This work aims to investigate whether the variety of English used by Nigerian newscasters is stable and systematic enough to justify its acceptance as a model of Standard Nigerian English

  • Expires after: 14-01-2019
  • Keywords: First And Second Language Acquisition,Language Attitudes,Phonetics And Phonology,Sociolinguistics,Variationist Linguistics,West African Englishes,World Englishes,Nigerian English

Attitudes of Nigerian Students towards BBC Pidgin English

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The research aims to investigate the attitudes of Nigerians, specifically Nigerian students towards the BBC Pidgin English variety.

  • Expires after: 21-12-2018
  • Keywords: Sociolinguistics,Variationist Linguistics,West African Englishes,Pidgins And Creoles,Nigerian Pidgin English,West African Pidgin English,BBC Pidgin,Language Attitudes

Variation and change in derivational vs. inflectional productivity

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Similar variation and change occur in both derivational and inflectional productivity, supporting the hypothesis of a cline between D & I; hence measures of syntheticity should include derivation.

The English dative alternation

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My research focuses on regional variation in the probabilistic constraints that shape variation between the ditransitive and the prepositional dative across nine national varieties of English.

  • Expires after: 02-06-2018
  • Keywords: Constraints On Variation,Synchronic Linguistics,Variation,Dialectology

Genitive Alternation Across Varieties of English

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This study explores the underlying constraints that shape syntactic variation in new varieties of English.