Diachrony and Synchrony in English Corpus Linguistics, Fachbücher von Thomas Egan, María José López-Couso/Belén Méndez-N...

Contents: Alejandro Alcaraz-Sintes: Dictionary- and corpus-based research in historical linguistics - Nuria Calvo-Cortés: A corpus-based study of gradual meaning change in Late Modern English - Teresa Fanego: Dictionary-based corpus linguistics and beyond: developments in the expression of motion events in the history of English - María José López-Couso/Belén Méndez-Naya: The use of if as a declarative complementizer in English: theoretical and empirical considerations - Matti Rissanen: On English historical corpora, with notes on the development of adverbial connectives - Ondrej Tichý/Jan Cermák: Measuring typological syntheticity of English diachronically with the use of corpora - Salvador Valera-Hernández: Dictionary- and corpus-based research in applied and descriptive linguistics - Miguel-Ángel Benítez-Castro: Formal, syntactic, semantic and textual features of English shell nouns: a manual corpus-driven approach - Eduardo Coto-Villalibre: From prototypical to peripheral: the 'get + Ven' construction in contemporary spoken British English - Thomas Egan: Encoding 'throughness' in English and French - Beatriz Mato-Míguez: If you would like to lead: on the grammatical status of directive isolated if-clauses in spoken British English - Detmar Meurers/Julia Krivanek/Serhiy Bykh: On the automatic analysis of learner corpora. Native Language Identification as experimental testbed of language modelling between surface features and linguistic abstraction - Juan Santana-Lario: 'Adjective + whether/if-clause' constructions in English. An exploratory corpus-based study - Paul Thompson: Exploring Hoey's notion of textual colligation in a corpus of student writing.