ARCHER: A Representative Corpus of Historical English Registers
Publications on ARCHER
Biber, Douglas, Edward Finegan & Dwight Atkinson. 1994. ARCHER and its challenges: Compiling and exploring A Representative Corpus of Historical English Registers. In Udo Fries, Peter Schneider & Gunnel Tottie (eds.), Creating and using English language corpora. Papers from the 14th International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora, Zurich 1993, 1-13. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
Biber, Douglas, Edward Finegan, Dwight Atkinson, Ann Beck, Dennis Burges & Jene Burges. 1994. The design and analysis of the ARCHER corpus: A progress report [A Representative Corpus of Historical English Registers]. In Merja Kytö, Matti Rissanen & Susan Wright (eds.), Corpora across the centuries: Proceedings of the First International Colloquium on English Diachronic Corpora, St Catharine's College Cambridge, 25-27 March 1993 (Language and Computers. Studies in Practical Linguistics 11), 3-6. Amsterdam & Atlanta: Rodopi.
Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria. 2011. ARCHER past and present (1990-2010). ICAME Journal 35, 205-236.
Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria. 2011. ARCHER past and present (1990-2011). Poster presented at the 32nd Conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME 32), Oslo, 1-5 June 2011.
Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria. 2012. ARCHER 3.2. Poster based on preceding item, presented at ARCHER workshop, Manchester, 30 March 2012, now updated to May 2012.
Recent publications, presentations and theses using ARCHER (since 2006)
Authors conducted their research while working at or visiting one of the participating departments. An agreement form has to be signed for the use of ARCHER. (In one case searches were conducted on the author's behalf by a consortium member.)
Allen, Cynthia L. 2008. Genitives in early English: Typology and evidence. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Auer, Anita. 2006. Die Entwicklung des synthetischen Konjunktivs im Frühneuenglischen (1700-1900). Invited talk at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Germany (26 April 2006).
Auer, Anita. 2006. Measuring the effectiveness of eighteenth-century grammars. Paper presented at the Perspectives on Prescriptivism Colloquium, Ragusa, Italy (20-22 April 2006).
Auer, Anita. 2006. Precept and practice: The influence of prescriptivism on the English subjunctive. In Christiane Dalton-Puffer, Dieter Kastovsky, Nikolaus Ritt & Herbert Schendl (eds.), Syntax, style and grammatical norms: English from 1500-2000, 33-53. Frankfurt; Bern, etc.: Peter Lang.
Auer, Anita. 2007. Österreichisches Deutsch ist eine würde-volle Sprache - The subjunctive mood in eighteenth-century Austria. Leiden Working Papers in Linguistics 4.1, 1-20.
Auer, Anita. 2008. The subjunctive in the Age of Prescriptivism: English and German developments during the eighteenth century (Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Auer, Anita & Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade. 2007. Robert Lowth and the use of the inflectional subjunctive in eighteenth-century English. In Ute Smit, Stefan Dollinger, Julia Hüttner, Ursula Lutzky & Gunther Kaltenböck (eds.), Tracing English through time: Explorations in language variation, 1-18. Vienna: Braumüller.
Azad, Sehar. 2007. The doctor's orders: Prescription of eighteenth-century grammarians and the implications for the written language. Senior Honors Thesis, University of Michigan.
Baron, A., P. Rayson & D. Archer. 2009. Word frequency and key word statistics in historical corpus linguistics. Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies 20.1, 41-67.
Biber, Douglas & Susan Conrad. 2009. Register, genre, and style. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.
Biber, Douglas & Bethany Gray. 2011. Grammatical change in the noun phrase: The influence of written language use. English Language and Linguistics 15.2, 223-250.
Broccias, Cristiano & Nicholas Smith. 2007. Temporal as- and while-clauses: Change and continuity in their aspectual associations and restrictions from Late Modern English. Third Late Modern English Conference, Leiden, 30 August-1 September 2007.
Broccias, Cristiano & Nicholas Smith. 2010. Same time, across time: Simultaneity clauses from Late Modern to Present-Day English. English Language and Linguistics 14.3, 347–371.
Celle, Agnès & Nicholas Smith. 2010. Beyond aspect: Will be -ing and shall be -ing. Special issue: Future time reference in English. English Language and Linguistics 14.2, 239–269.
Chao-Castro, Milagros. 2008. Dual-form adverbs and genre: The figurative and literal use of adverbial variants. Paper presented at the 29th Conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME 29), Ascona, 14-18 May 2008.
Cort, Alison. 2006. Recent and current change in the modal verb. Submitted (but never corrected and revised) PhD dissertation, University of Manchester.
Cort, Alison, David Denison & Mariangela Spinillo. 2006. The changing status of the minor categories Determiner and Modal. Paper presented at 14ICEHL, Bergamo.
Denison, David. 2007. Modal better: A subjective history. Paper presented at the University of Sheffield and at colloquium on theme 'Le Verbe' organised by Groupe de Recherches en Linguistique Anglaise SESYLIA de Paris 3.
Denison, David. 2010. SKT-constructions: The relation between synchronic and diachronic analysis. Paper presented at SLE 43, Vilnius.
Denison, David. 2011a. Grammatical mark-up: Some more demarcation disputes. Plenary paper presented at New Methods in Historical Corpora, Manchester.
Denison, David. 2011b. ISLE highlights? Presidential address at ISLE2, Boston MA.
Denison, David. in prep. English word classes: Categories and their limits (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics). Cambridge University Press.
Denison, David & Alison Cort. 2010. Better as a verb. In Kristin Davidse, Lieven Vandelanotte & Hubert Cuyckens (eds.), Subjectification, intersubjectification and grammaticalization (Topics in English Linguistics 66), 349-83. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter Mouton.
Denison, David & Marianne Hundt. 2011. Defining relatives. Paper presented at Helsinki Corpus Festival, Helsinki.
Faya, Fátima. 2007. On the competition of the courtesy markers please, pray and if you please in the period 1850-1950: Evidence from ARCHER. Paper presented at the 28th Conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME 28), Stratford-upon-Avon, 23-27 May 2007.
González-Cruz, Ana Isabel. 2007. On the subjectification of adverbial clause connectives: Semantic and pragmatic considerations on the development of while-clauses. In Ursula Lenker & Anneli Meurman-Solin (eds.), Connectives in the history of English (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 283), 145-166. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
González-Díaz, Victorina. 2008. Recent developments in English intensifiers: the case of very much. English Language and Linguistics 12.2, 221-243.
Hamilton, Nadia. 2006. Semantic change in Middle/early Modern English using a corpus. Dissertation BA, University of Manchester.
Hundt, Marianne. 2007. English mediopassive constructions: A cognitive, corpus-based study of their origin, spread, and current status. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
Hundt, Marianne. 2009. Colonial lag, colonial innovation, or simply language change? In Günter Rohdenburg & Julia Schlüter (eds.), One Language, Two Grammars?, 13-37. CUP.
Hundt, Marianne. 2011. Relatives in scientific English: Variation across time and space. Plenary paper presented at CLAVIER 11 conference: Tracking Language Change in Specialised and Professional Genres, Modena.
Hundt, Marianne, David Denison & Gerold Schneider. 2010. Relative complexity in scientific discourse. Paper presented at LME4, Sheffield. Submitted for publication.
Hundt, Marianne, David Denison & Gerold Schneider. forthcoming,2012. Retrieving relatives from historical data. Literary and Linguistic Computing.
Hundt, Marianne, David Denison & Gerold Schneider. to appear,2012. Relative complexity in scientific discourse. English Language and Linguistics 16.2.
Hundt, Marianne & Benedikt Szmrecsanyi. 2011. Animacy down under. Paper presented at Helsinki Corpus Festival, Helsinki.
Hundt, Marianne & Benedikt Szmrecsanyi. forthcoming,2012. Animacy in early New Zealand English. English World Wide 33.3.
Kranich, Svenja. 2008. Subjective progressives in seventeenth and eighteenth century English. Secondary grammaticalization as a process of objectification. In Maurizio Gotti, Marina Dossena & Richard Dury (eds.), English historical linguistics 2006. Vol. I, Syntax and morphology, 241-256. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Kranich, Svenja. 2009. Interpretative progressives in Late Modern English. In Wim van der Wurff & Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade (eds.), Current issues in Late Modern English. (Linguistic Insights 77), 331-360. Bern: Lang.
Kranich, Svenja. 2010a. The progressive in Modern English. A corpus-based study of grammaticalization and related changes. (Language and Computers — Studies in Practical Linguistics 72). Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi.
Kranich, Svenja. 2010b. Grammaticalization, subjectification and objectification. In Katerina Stathi, Elke Gehweiler & Ekkehard König (eds.), Grammaticalization: Current views and issues, 101-122. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Kranich, Svenja. submitted. Functional layering as explanation for the meaning spectrum of the Present-day English progressive. Proceedings of New Reflections on Grammaticalization 4.
Krug, Manfred. 2009. Modality and the history of English adhortatives. In Raphael Salkie, Pierre Busuttil & Johan van der Auwera (eds.), Modality in English. Theory and Description (Topics in English Linguistics), 315-347. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
Laitinen, Mikko. 2009. Singular YOU WAS/WERE variation and English normative grammars in the eighteenth century. In Arja Nurmi, Minna Nevala & Minna Palander-Collin (eds.), The language of daily life in England (1400-1800), 199-217. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
López-Couso, María José. 2007a. Auxiliary and negative cliticisation in Late Modern English. In Javier Pérez-Guerra et al. (eds.), Of varying language and opposing creed: New insights into Late Modern English, 301-323. Bern: Peter Lang.
López-Couso, María José. 2007b. Adverbial connectives within and beyond adverbial subordination: The history of lest. In Ursula Lenker & Anneli Meurman-Solin (eds.), Clausal connection in the history of English, 11-29. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
López-Couso, María José. 2011. Looking into the history of namely: A story of ruthless competition. Paper presented at 32st Conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME 32), Oslo (Norway), 1-5 June 2011.
López-Couso, María José & Belén Méndez-Naya. 2007. The declarative use of complementizer how: Late Modern English in focus. 3rd Late Modern English Conference. Leiden, 30 August-1 September 2007.
López-Couso, María José & Belén Méndez-Naya. 2008a. More on the complementizer use of if and though in the history of English. Paper presented at 29th Conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME 28), Ascona 14-18 May 2008.
López-Couso, María José & Belén Méndez-Naya. 2008b. 'It looks as if it's a complementizer': On the origin and development of the minor declarative complementizers as if and as though. 15th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (15 ICEHL). Munich, 24-30 August 2008.
López-Couso, María José & Belén Méndez-Naya. 2008c. On the margins of complementation: Exploring complementizer choice in the history of English. Paper presented at First Triennial Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE 1), Freiburg, 8-11 October 2008.
López-Couso, María José & Belén Méndez-Naya. 2008d. Low-frequency phenomena in the light of historical corpora: The case of minor declarative complementizers. Invited presentation at the symposium Corpora and the history of English: ARCHER3 and beyond, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), Freiburg 12 December 2008.
López-Couso, María José & Belén Méndez-Naya. 2009. Beyond the adverbial domain: On the complementizer use of adverbial subordinators in the history of English. Paper presented at English Linguistics Circle, Santiago de Compostela (Spain), 29 January 2009.
López-Couso, María José & Belén Méndez-Naya. 2009. On the complementizer use of comparative subordinators in English: Synchronic and diachronic aspects. 42nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE42), Lisbon (Portugal), 9-12 September 2009.
López-Couso, María José & Belén Méndez-Naya. 2010. At the crossroads of complementation and adverbial subordination: Intralinguistic and crosslinguistic considerations. Paper presented at Department of Linguistics Research Seminar Series, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London (UK), 23 November 2010.
López-Couso, María José & Belén Méndez-Naya. 2012. Compiling British English legal texts: A contribution to ARCHER. In Nila Vázquez González (ed.). Creation and Use of Historical English Corpora in Spain. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
López-Couso, María José & Belén Méndez-Naya. 2012. On the origin and development of comparative complementizers in English: Evidence from historical corpora. In Nila Vázquez González (ed.). Creation and use of historical English corpora in Spain. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
López-Couso, María José & Javier Pérez-Guerra. 2006. Negative contraction in Modern and Contemporary English: Simultaneous, intersecting and independent forces. Paper presented at 27th Conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME 27), Helsinki, 24-28 May 2006.
López-Couso, María José & Paula Rodríguez-Puente. 2012. Corpus compilation within the research unit Variation, Linguistic Change and Grammatizalization: COLMOBAENG, ARCHER, and CHELAR. Paper presented at Workshop English Historical Corpora Compiled in Spain, IV Congreso Internacional de Lingüística de Corpus, Jaén, 21 March 2012.
Martínez-Insua, Ana E. & Javier Pérez-Guerra. 2006. 'There's Bjørg': on there-sentences in the recent history of English. In Leiv Egil Breivik, Sandra Halverson & Kari E. Haugland (eds.), 'These things write I vnto the...' Essays in honour of Bjørg Bækken, 189-211. Oslo: Novus Press.
Martínez-Insua, Ana E. & Javier Pérez-Guerra. 2007. It is more complex to read letters than drama (really?): On linguistic complexity and text-type variation in the recent history of English. Paper presented at the Poznan Linguistic Meeting. Poznan (Poland), 13-16 September 2007.
Martínez-Insua, Ana E. & Javier Pérez-Guerra. 2008. Discourse coherence in the recent history of English. Paper presented at the Colloque International MIC 2008 'La cohérence du discourse: texte et théorie', Paris, 18-20 September 2008.
Méndez-Naya, Belén. 2011. A preliminary study of the history of the intensifier utterly. Paper presented at 35th AEDEAN International Conference, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain), 16-18 November 2011.
Meyer, Pius. 2009. A or an and h. On the allomorphy of the indefinite article as an indicator of h-onset from the 17th century to the present. Seminar paper, University of Zürich.
Moore, Colette. 2007. The spread of grammaticalized forms: The case of be + supposed to. Journal of English Linguistics 35.2, 117-131.
Nesselhauf, Nadja. 2006. The decline of be to and the rise of be going to in Late Modern English: connection or coincidence? In Christoph Houswitschka, Gabriele Knappe & Anja Müller (eds.), Anglistentag 2005 Bamberg Proceedings, 515-529. Trier: WVT.
Nesselhauf, Nadja. 2007a. Diachronic analysis with the internet? Will and shall in ARCHER and in a corpus of e-texts from the web. In Marianne Hundt, Nadja Nesselhauf & Carolin Biewer (eds.), Corpus Linguistics and the Web, 287-305. Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi.
Nesselhauf, Nadja. 2007b. The spread of the progressive and its 'future' use. English Language and Linguistics 11.1, 193-209.
Nesselhauf, Nadja. 2011a. The development of future time expressions in Late Modern English: Redistribution of forms or change in discourse? English Language and Linguistics 14.2, 163-186.
Nesselhauf, Nadja. 2011b. Temporal specifiers and markers of futurity: Rethinking factors of variation. ICAME Journal 35, 159-176.
Núñez-Pertejo, Paloma. 2007a. Some observations on the semantics of the progressive in the eighteenth century: Aspectual and non aspectual functions?. In María Losada Friend, Pilar Ron Vaz, Sonia Hernández Santano & Jorge Casanova (eds.), Proceedings of the 30th International AEDEAN Conference. Huelva: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Huelva. [CD-Rom]
Núñez-Pertejo, Paloma. 2007b. Aspects of the use of the progressive in the 18th century. In Javier Pérez-Guerra et al. (eds.), 'Of varying language and opposing creed': New insights into Late Modern English (Linguistic Insights 28), 359-82. Bern: Peter Lang.
Pérez-Guerra, Javier. 2008a. It is the development of it-clefts in the recent history of English that I shall tackle in this paper. Paper presented at the Cleft Workshop, Berlin (Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft), 28-29 November 2008.
Pérez-Guerra, Javier. 2008b. Referentiality and syntax in the recent history of English. Paper presented at the 15th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Munich, 29 August 2008.
Pérez-Guerra, Javier. 2012 (in press). Discourse status and syntax in the history of English: Some explorations in topicalization, left-dislocation and there-constructions. In Anneli Meurman-Solin et al. (eds.), Information structure and syntactic change in the history of English. New York: Oxford University Press.
Pérez-Guerra, Javier & Ana E. Martínez-Insua. 2006. Complexification as a metric of diachronic text-type characterisation. Paper presented at the 30th International AEDEAN Conference, Huelva (Spain), 15 December 2006.
Pérez-Guerra, Javier & Ana E. Martínez-Insua. 2007. A fine-grained study of structural complexity in the recent history of English. Paper presented at the Studies in the History of the English Language (SHEL), Athens, University of Georgia, 4-6 October 2007.
Pérez-Guerra, Javier & Ana E. Martínez-Insua. 2007. Complexification as a metric of diachronic text-type characterisation. In María Losada Friend, Pilar Ron Vaz, Sonia Hernández Santano y Jorge Casanova (eds.), Proceedings of the 30th International AEDEAN Conference. Huelva: Universidad de Huelva (Servicio de Publicaciones). (On CD).
Pérez-Guerra, Javier & Ana E. Martínez-Insua. 2007a. Do some genres become 'more' complex than others? Paper presented at the 29th International Conference of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (29 DGfS), Arbeits Group 'Syntactic variation and emerging genres'. Siegen (Germany), 29 March 2007.
Pérez-Guerra, Javier & Ana E. Martínez-Insua. 2007b. NP-based complexification in Late Modern English. Paper presented at the Third Late Modern English Conference, Leiden (The Netherlands), 30 August 2007.
Pérez-Guerra, Javier & Ana E. Martínez-Insua. 2007c. Subjects and complexity in the recent history of English. Paper presented at Directions in English Language Studies (DELS), Manchester, 6-9 April 2006.
Pérez-Guerra, Javier & Ana E. Martínez-Insua. 2008a. Complejidad sintáctica y estructural de constituyentes nominales en la historia reciente de la lengua inglesa. Paper presented at the XXVI Congreso AESLA (Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada), Almería (Spain), 3-5 April 2008.
Pérez-Guerra, Javier & Ana E. Martínez-Insua. 2008b. Scaling texts by measuring their linguistic complexity: an experiment with Late Middle and Modern English data. Paper presented at the 20th International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature (SELIM), Oviedo (Spain), 2-4 October 2008.
Pérez-Guerra, Javier & Ana Elina Martínez-Insua. 2009a. NP-based modification strategies in the recent history of the English language ('when Matter is no longer modified'). In Pascual Cantos Gómez & Aquilino Sánchez Pérez (eds.) A survey on corpus-based research. Panorama de investigaciones basadas en corpus, 1156-1170. Murcia: Spanish Society (AELINCO).
Pérez-Guerra, Javier & Ana Elina Martínez-Insua. 2009b. Complejidad sintáctica y estructural de constituyentes nominales en la historia reciente de la lengua inglesa. In Carrmen M. Bretones et al. (eds.), Applied linguistics now: understanding language and mind, 1473-1497. Almería: University of Almería.
Pérez-Guerra, Javier & Ana Elina Martínez-Insua. 2010. Do some genres or text types become more complex than others? In Heidrun Dorgeloch & Anja Wanner (eds.), Syntactic variation and genre, 111-140. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Pérez-Guerra, Javier, Dolores González-Álvarez, Jorge Luis Bueno-Alonso & Esperanza Rama-Martínez. 2007. 'Of varying language and opposing creed': Five first details are being depicted. In Javier Pérez-Guerra, Dolores González-Álvarez, Jorge Luis Bueno-Alonso y Esperanza Rama-Martínez (eds.), 'Of varying language and opposing creed'. New insights into Late Modern English, 11-24. Bern: Peter Lang.
Rissanen, Matti. 2008a. Corpus linguistics and historical linguistics. In Anke Lüdeling & Merja Kytö (eds), Corpus linguistics: An international handbook, vol. 1, 53-68. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter.
Rissanen, Matti. 2008b. From 'quickly' to 'fairly': On the history of rather. English Language and Linguistics 12.2, 345-359.
Rissanen, Matti. 2009. Grammaticalisation, contact and adverbial connectives: The rise and decline of save. In Shinichiro Watanabe & Yukiteru Hosoya (eds.), English philology and corpus studies: A Festschrift in honour of Mitsunori Imai to celebrate his seventieth birthday, 135-152. Tokyo: Shohakusha Publishing.
Rissanen, Matti. 2010. On the history of unless. In Merja Kytö, John Scahill & Harumi Tanabe (eds.), Language change and variation from Old English to Late Modern English: A Festschrift for Minoji Akimoto, 327-347. Bern: Peter Lang.
Rissanen, Matti. in press,a. Corpora and the study of English historical syntax. In Merja Kytö (ed.), English corpus linguistics: Crossing paths. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
Rissanen, Matti. in press,b. Grammaticalisation, contact and corpora: On the development of adverbial subordinators in English. In Proceedings of the Malta IAUPE Conference 2010.
Rodríguez-Abruñeiras, Paula. 2009. Including and included as appositive markers of exemplification: A prototypical case of apposition? MA Dissertation, University of Santiago de Compostela.
Rodríguez-Puente, Paula. 2009a. From literal to idiomatic: On the idiomatization of phrasal verbs. Poster presented at the 30th Conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME 30), Lancaster, 27-31 May 2009.
Rodríguez-Puente, Paula. 2009b. And new meanings turned up: The development of new meanings of English phrasal verbs with up: Evidence from the Helsinki Corpus and ARCHER1. Paper presented at AACL 2009 (American Association for Corpus Linguistics), Edmonton, Alberta, 8-11 October 2009.
Rosenbach, Anette. 2007. Emerging variation: determiner genitives and noun modifiers in English. English Language and Linguistics 11.1, 143-189.
Schlüter, Julia. to appear. Using historical literature databases as corpora. In Manfred Krug & Julia Schlüter (eds.), Research methods in language variation and change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Seoane, Elena. 2008. The conventionalization of the passive in Late Modern scientific English. In María Jesús Lorenzo Modia (ed.), Proceedings of 31st International Conference of AEDEAN, 291-302. University of A Coruña.
Seoane, Elena. 2009. Syntactic complexity, discourse status and animacy as determinants of grammatical variation in Modern English. English Language and Linguistics 13, 365-384.
Seoane, Elena. 2010. The effect of prominence hierarchies on Modern English long passives: Pragmatic vs. syntactic factors. Miscelánea 41, 93-106.
Smith, Nicholas. 2008. From aspect to pragmatics: Will + be -ing and shall + be -ing. Invited talk, Langwidge Sandwidge, University of Manchester, 22 April.
Smith, Nicholas & Beatrix Busse. 2007. Obligational hedged performatives in 19th- and 20th-century British English. 10th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA), Göteborg, Sweden, 8-13 July.
Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt. 2009. What happened to the s-genitive? The English genitive alternation in Modern English. Workshop on Morpho-syntactic categories and the expression of possession, 3-4 April 2009, The University of Manchester.
Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt. forthcoming. The great regression: Genitive variability in Late Modern English news texts. In Kersti Börjars, David Denison & Alan Scott (eds.), Morphosyntactic categories and the expression of possession (Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Tissari, Heli. 2008. Happiness and joy in corpus contexts: A cognitive semantic analysis. In Heli Tissari, Anne Birgitta Pessi & Mikko Salmela (eds), Happiness: Cognition, Experience, Language (COLLeGIUM Studies Across Disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences 3.), 144-174. Helsinki: Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki.
Tissari, Heli. 2008. On the concept of sadness: Looking at words in contexts derived from corpora. In Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (ed.), Corpus Linguistics, Computer Tools, and Applications: State of the Art, 291-308. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
Valkonen, Petteri, 2008. Showing a little promise: Identifying and retrieving explicit illocutionary acts from a corpus of written prose. In Andreas H. Jucker & Irma Taavitsainen (eds.), Speech acts in the history of English, 247-272. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins.
Wild, Kate. 2006. A diachronic study of the verb give. MPhil dissertation, University of Glasgow.
Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria. 2006. Gender variation and syntactic variation: Preposition stranding in Modern English. Paper presented at International Conference on Language History from Below - Linguistic Variation in Germanic Languages from 1700 to 2000, 6-8 April 2006. University of Bristol.
Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria. 2006. Never use a preposition to end a sentence with: The rule and the usage. Paper presented at 14th International Conference of English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL), 21-25 August 2006. University of Bergamo (Italy).
Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria. 2007a. Preposition stranding and prescriptivism in English from 1500 to 1900. Paper presented at1st Summer School in Historical Sociolinguistics, 16-23 August 2007. Lesbos (Greece). Organised by the Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HiSoN).
Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria. 2007b. Preposition stranding and prescriptivism in English from 1500 to 1900: A corpus-based approach. Dissertation PhD, The University of Manchester.
Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria. 2007. Preposition stranding in the social history of English from 1500 to 1900: A corpus-based approach. Paper presented at English Linguistics Circle (ELC), University of Vigo, 31 May 2007. Organised by the University of Santiago and the University of Vigo (Spain).
Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria. 2008. Placing prepositions in early and late Modern English texts: Genre variation and idiolectal preferences. 9th Triangle Colloquium, 27 September. Manchester (UK).
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