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Understanding the Continuum of Dementia of the Alzheimer’s Type and Communication Profiles in Its Context
This chapter provides an overview of the DAT continuum and offers different conceptualizations of Dementia of the Alzheimer’s Type and its...
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Eh Across Englishes: A Corpus-Pragmatic Analysis of the Corpus of Global Web-Based English
This paper presents an analysis of the pragmatic marker eh , which is typical of spoken discourse, in written online discourse from nine varieties of...
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“Well He’s Sick Anyway Like”: Anyway in Irish English
The paper describes anyway in the Irish component of the International Corpus of International English (ICE-IRL) and similarities and differences in...
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Self-Repair in Russian Spoken Discourse in Psycholinguistics Aspect: Correlation Analysis and Quantitative Data
The article is aimed at revealing and describing the correlation between the number and usage of self-repairs in monologues and the psychological...
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Russian indefinite markers to and nibud’: a microdiachronic approach
This paper deals with the evolution of the Russian indefinite series to and nibud’ after the 18th century. The Russian National Corpus data show that...
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“I Thought you had Forgotten me”: A Corpus-Pragmatic Examination of the Mental Verb Think in Irish Emigrants’ Letters
This paper sets out to explore the interface between migration experiences and epistolary discourse in CORIECOR, the Corpus of Irish English...
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Microsyntax meets macrosyntax: Russian neg-words revisited
This paper offers a new analysis of Russian syntactic idioms consisting of stressed general negation n´e - fused with a wh -word ( k -word). The elements...
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The Old English Phoenix as a Model of Saintly Embodiment
The Old English poem The Phoenix is often read as a straight-forward allegory for the eternal life that awaits Christians. There has been some recent...
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Russian feminatives with expressive suffixes -ixa, -ša and their Czech translation equivalents: a corpus study
The article focuses on the analysis of expressive Russian feminatives with suffixes -ixa and -ša and their translation equivalents in Czech. The...
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Typical spelling errors of Grade 1 spellers of Polish: An exploratory study adapting the POMAS classification to the Polish orthography
This paper presents the adaptation of the POMAS classification of spelling errors (Silliman et al., Developmental Neuropsychology 29:93–123, 2006,...
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BE Like Simile Usage Across Genres in the COCA
Despite its high frequency, simile usage is often overlooked in both linguistic research and English language teaching. In the current study, I...
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Connecting Grammatical Person, Humanness, and Discourse Functions: Always Progressives as a Case Study
Because they reflect such important pragmatic and cognitive aspects of discourse, grammatical person and humanness merit special consideration in the...
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“Xylella is the Enemy that Must be Fought”: Representations of the X. Fastidiosa Bacterium in the Media Discourse
The paper explores media representations of Xylella fastidiosa , the bacterium that causes severe plant diseases, using data from online sources in...
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Emotional Deixis in Online Hate Speech
Demonstrative determiners can be used to convey the speaker’s emotional involvement in the subject matter (Lakoff, 1974). They also play a role in...
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Concord in Russian close appositional constructions: a quantitative study
The paper discusses case concord in Russian appositional constructions, which manifests itself in optional case concord of the proper name ( v rek-e LOC ...
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Like in Discourse Marker Combinations in Spoken Interaction
An often cited property of discourse markers is their ability to cluster. Precisely this property has so far received little dedicated scholarly...
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Develo** a Comparative Model of Predicted Associations for Invariable Question Tag Types in British English and European Portuguese
The present chapter scrutinises invariable question tags in British English and European Portuguese from a contrastive point of view. Most previous...
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Honorifics without [hon]
Honorifics are grammaticalized reflexes of politeness, often recruiting existing featural values (e.g. French recruits plural vous for polite...
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The Impact of Frequency of Occurrence of Verb-Preposition Collocations on Their Acquisition by Moroccan EFL Learners
Research on collocations has witnessed a significant development during the last decades. A great deal of SLA research on vocabulary has dealt with...
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Exploring the frequency contours in close reading texts
Many initiatives have emphasized the importance of challenging students in text using readability formulas. Almost all formulas employ mean word...
