English Language & Linguistics

Papers
(The median citation count of English Language & Linguistics is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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Thijs Porck, Moragh S. Gordon and Luisella Caon (eds.), Keys to the history of English: Diachronic linguistic change, morpho-syntax and lexicography. Selected papers from the 21st ICEHL (Current Issue10
Rong Chen, Towards a motivation model of pragmatics (Mouton Series in Pragmatics 27). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2022. Pp. xvii + 333. ISBN 9783110787580.8
On the relationship between linguistic creativity and change in morphological constructions6
‘The night before beg'd ye queens's pardon and his brother's’: the apostrophe in the history of English6
Flipping the on/off switch: change in progress in the prepositional complements of verbs like base6
Robert McColl Millar , A history of the Scots language. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. xi + 196. ISBN 9780198863991.5
Irma Taavitsainen, Turo Hiltunen, Jeremy J. Smith and Carla Suhr (eds.), Genre in English medical writing, 1500–1820: Sociocultural contexts of production and use (Studies in English Lan5
Miriam A. Locher, Andreas H. Jucker, Daniela Landert and Thomas C. Messerli, Fiction and Pragmatics (Cambridge Elements in Pragmatics). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 76. IBSN 9781005
Kristin Davidse, Ngum Meyuhnsi Njende and Gerard O’Grady, Specificational and presentational there-clefts: Redefining the field of clefts. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. Pp. xiii + 187.4
A quantitative exploration of the functions of auxiliary do in Middle English4
Motivations for specialisation: testing the feasibility of polysemous pre-emption in the competition between will and must4
At ( the ( very )) least in Engl4
Wiebke H. Ahlers, Consonantal sound change in American English: An analysis of clustered sibilants (Studies in English Language). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. xii + 233. ISBN 978133
Ole Schützler and Julia Schlüter (eds.), Data and methods in corpus linguistics: Comparative approaches. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. xvi + 358. ISBN 9781108731034 (pb).3
Navigating the vernacular across the lifespan: a panel study of the phonetic realisation of the first-person singular possessive3
Loan verb accommodation: a comparison of Old Norse and French in Middle English3
Insight from obsolescence: English demonstratives as a unique case for the study of doubling3
Ee Ling Low and Anne Pakir (eds.), English in East and South Asia: Policy, features and language in use (Routledge Studies in World Englishes). London and New York: Routledge, 2021. Pp. 3
Allison Burkette, Dialectology and the Linguistic Atlas Project (Cambridge Elements in Sociolinguistics). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 74. ISBN 9781009236647.3
Linguistic change and metre: the demise of adjectival inflections and the scansion of ‘high’ and ‘sly’ in Chaucer, Gower and Hoccleve3
Isabel Moskowich, Inés Lareo and Gonzalo Camiña (eds.), ‘All families and genera’: Exploring the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2021. Pp. xv + 310. 2
Juho Ruohonen and Juhani Rudanko, Infinitival vs gerundial complementation with afraid, accustomed, and prone: Multivariate corpus studies. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. Pp. xii2
Ole Schützler , Concessive constructions in varieties of English (Language Variation 9). Berlin: Language Science Press, 2023. Pp. viii + 270. ISBN 9783961104222.2
The rise of Scots do – transfer or innovation?2
Ellipsis meets the reactive what-x construction in English2
When English complement clauses meet evidential adverbs2
When to (not) split the infinitive: factors governing patterns of syntactic variation in Twitter-style Philippine English2
Speech reflections in Late Modern English pauper letters from Dorset2
Caroline Gentens, Lobke Ghesquière, William B. McGregor and An Van linden (eds.), Reconnecting form and meaning: In honour of Kristin Davidse (Studies in Language Companion Series 230). Amsterdam and 2
Ewa Jonsson and Tove Larsson (eds.), Voices past and present – Studies of involved, speech-related and spoken texts. In honor of Merja Kytö. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2020. Pp. xiii + 348. ISBN 97890272072
Christopher Williams, The impact of plain language on legal English in the United Kingdom. Abingdon: Routledge, 2022. Pp. xi + 206. ISBN 9780367457297.2
José A. Sánchez Fajardo, Pejorative suffixes and combining forms in English (Studies in Language Companion Series 222). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2022. Pp. xvi + 229. ISBN 9782
Extravagant much? Syntactic creativity because Wayne’s World2
Lynn Anthonissen, Individuality in language change (Trends in Linguistics 360). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2021. Pp. xvi + 323. ISBN 9783110725841.2
Minna Korhonen, Haidee Kotze and Jukka Tyrkkö (eds.), Exploring language and society with big data: Parliamentary discourse across time and space (Studie2
An exploratory investigation of functional variation in South Asian online Englishes2
Marion Neubauer, English nouns since 1150: A typological study (Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] 115). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2024. Pp. xv + 254. ISBN 9783111317472.2
ELL volume 26 issue 4 Cover and Front matter1
Emma Moore, Socio-syntax: Exploring the social life of grammar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 256. ISBN 9781108843973.1
Hedged performatives in spoken American English: recent change and variation in their use1
A constructionalist account of why-fragments and Mad Magazine sentences: the ‘Sceptical Small’ construction1
‘When intuitions (don't) fail’: combining syntax and sociolinguistics in the analysis of Scots1
Tony Berber Sardinha and Shannon Fitzsimmons-Doolan, Lexical multidimensional analysis: Identifying discourses and ideologies (Elements in Corpus Linguistics). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 21
ELL volume 26 issue 4 Cover and Back matter1
Anna Mauranen and Svetlana Vetchinnikova (eds.), Language change: The impact of English as a lingua franca. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. ix + 363. ISBN 9781108729819.1
Irina T. Pandarova, Revisiting sentence adverbials and relevance (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 334). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2021. Pp. ix + 254. ISBN 9789027213730.1
A collostructional approach to the concealed passive construction in English1
Martin Schweinberger and Patricia Ronan (eds.), Socio-pragmatic variation in Ireland: Using pragmatic variation to construct social identities (Trends in Linguistics Studies and Monographs 378). Berli1
Joseph E. Emonds, The syntax and morphology of English verbs: Patterns that matter (Studies in Generative Grammar 147). Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2022. Pp. xiii + 266. ISBN 9783110738711.1
The syntax of Expletive Negation in English: the case of not -ACC- ing constructions1
Carolina P. Amador-Moreno, Dagmar Haumann and Arne Peters (eds.), Digitally-assisted historical English linguistics. New York: Routledge, 2024. Pp. xi + 313. ISBN 9781032418995.1
Peter Trudgill, The long journey of English: A geographical history of the language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 191. ISBN 9781108949576.1
Mirjam Fried and Kiki Nikiforidou (eds.), The Cambridge handbook of Construction Grammar (Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics). Cambridge: Ca1
Daniela Pettersson-Traba, The development of the concept of SMELL in American English: A usage-based view of near-synonymy (Applications of Cognitive Linguistics 51). Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter Mou1
Actually : function, position and prosody1
Lisa Jansen, English rock and pop performances: A sociolinguistic investigation of British and American language perceptions and attitudes (IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society 51). Amster1
Merja Kytö and Lucia Siebers (eds.), Earlier North American Englishes (Varieties of English Around the World G66). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2022. Pp. viii + 261. ISBN 1
Tony Crowley, Liverpool: A memoir of words. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2023. Pp. 224. ISBN 9781837644384.1
Theresa Neumaier, Conversation in World Englishes: Turn-taking and cultural variation in Southeast Asian and Caribbean English (Studies in English Language). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021
Comparing comparatives: appropriateness ratings of synthetic, analytic and double comparatives in American and British English1
Nikolay Slavkov, Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer and Nadja Kerschhofer-Puhalo (eds.), The changing face of the ‘native speaker’: Perspectives from multilingualism and globalization (Trends in Applied Linguistics 1
Maryann Overstreet and George Yule, General extenders: The forms and functions of a new linguistic category. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. x + 238. ISBN 9781108837231.1
The long history of shortening: a diachronic analysis of abbreviation practices from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century1
A quantitative model of verb–object order in Middle English with special reference to the prose–poetry distinction1
Dagmar Haumann and Kristin Killie, The development of speaker-oriented adverbs in English: Reanalysis, ellipsis, lexicalization or analogy? (Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today 287). Amsterdam and 1
Olga Timofeeva, Sociolinguistic variation in Old English: Records of communities and people (Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics 13). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2022. Pp. xvii + 21
Disgusting, obscene and aggravating language: speech descriptors and the sociopragmatic evaluation of speech in theOld Bailey Corpus1
Kirsten Middeke, The Old English case system: Case and argument structure constructions (Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics 12). Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2021. Pp. xvi + 421. ISBN 9789004435261
The special position of fragments and imperatives in polished prose: data from The Economist editorials1
Patrick Honeybone and Warren Maguire (eds.), Dialect writing and the North of England. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. Pp. xii + 356. ISBN 9781474442565.1
Ilse Depraetere, Bert Cappelle, Martin Hilpert, Ludovic De Cuypere, Mathieu Dehouck, Pascal Denis, Susanne Flach, Natalia Grabar, Cyril Grandin, Thierry Hamon, Clemens Hufeld, Benoît Leclerq and Hans-1
A multivariate account of particle alternation after bare-formtryin native varieties of English0
Oblique predicative constructions in English withforandas:quavsqualitate qua0
Hendrik De Smet , Peter Petré and Benedikt Szmrecsanyi (eds.), Context, intent and variation in grammaticalization (Trends in Linguistics Studies and Monographs 365). Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter M0
Yorkshire folk versus Yorkshire boors: evidence for sociological fractionation in nineteenth-century Yorkshire dialect writing0
Decoding Bollywood: why Hindi–English code-switching and standard English outrank Indian English0
The simple past versus perfect in English: evidence from Visual World eye tracking0
Thomas Herbst and Thomas Hoffmann, A Construction Grammar of the English language: CASA – a constructionist approach to syntactic analysis (Cognitive Linguistics in Practice 5). Amsterdam and Philadel0
‘Di game show ’bout spellin’ and ting’: Jamaican Creole and cultural stereotypes in Jamaican Countdown0
Isomorphism-inspired theorising about optionality and variation: no empirical support from English grammar0
Benedikt Szmrecsanyi and Jason Grafmiller , Comparative variation analysis: Grammatical alternations in World Englishes (Studies in Language Variation and Change). Cambridge: Cambridge University Pre0
Sven Leuckert, Claudia Lange, Tobias Bernaisch and Asya Yurchenko, Indian Englishes in the twenty-first century: Unity and diversity in lexicon and morphosyntax (Elements in World Englishes). Cambridg0
The ‘adverb-ly adjective’ construction in English: meanings, distribution and discourse functions0
Donatella Montini and Irene Ranzato (eds.), The dialects of British English in fictional texts (Routledge Research in Language and Communication 10). Abingdon: Routledge, 2021. Pp. ix + 217. ISBN 97800
Natalie Braber, Lexical variation of an East Midlands mining community. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022. Pp. 192. ISBN 9781474455541.0
CP complements ofer-nominalisations in English0
Daniela Landert, Daria Dayter, Thomas C. Messerli and Miriam A. Locher, Corpus pragmatics (Cambridge Elements in Pragmatics). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 86. ISBN 9781009095082.0
A social turn for Construction Grammar: double modals on British Twitter0
A discourse-functional approach to theticity, subtypes of integrated relative clause and extraposition in English0
Degree concealed questions0
John Considine, Sixteenth-century English dictionaries. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. xiv + 496. ISBN 9780198832287.0
Segment count and weight iny-adjective comparatives: inroads that bite off more than one can chew!0
Daniela Landert, Methods in historical corpus pragmatics: Epistemic stance in Early Modern English (Studies in English Language). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. xvi + 314. ISBN 781000
Elly van Gelderen, Third factors in language variation and change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xvi + 222. ISBN 9781108831161.0
Guyanne Wilson and Michael Westphal (eds.), New Englishes, new methods (Varieties of English Around the World G68). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2023. Pp. viii + 276. ISBN 9789027213686.0
The usage of there sentences with become: the relationship between change of state and appearance/occurrence0
Peter Trudgill, East Anglian English (Dialects of English 21). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2022. Pp. i–xii + 243. ISBN 9781501517556.0
How landmark is this? On the spread of N>A category shifts in Late Modern English0
The productivity of the Complex Modifier Construction in World Englishes0
Sarah Buschfeld, Patricia Ronan, Theresa Neumaier, Andreas Weilinghoff and Lisa Westermayer (eds.), Crossing boundaries through corpora: Innovative corpus approaches within and beyond linguistics (Stu0
Special issue on verse structure and linguistic modelling: introductory notes0
Daniela Schröder, Independent wh-exclamative constructions in the history of English. New York: Routledge, 2024. Pp. + 252. ISBN 9781003424949 (ebook).0
Raquel P. Romasanta, Probabilistic variability in clausal verb complementation in World Englishes (Linguistic Insights 301). Bern: Peter Lang, 2023. Pp. xvi + 349. ISBN 97830343470200
The role of dialect in comedy performances: focus on enregisterment and humor0
The role of coercion in the productivity and creativity of complex verb formation: a constructional approach0
Expletive insertion: a morphological approach0
Bettelou Los, Claire Cowie, Patrick Honeybone and Graeme Trousdale (eds.), English historical linguistics: Change in structure and meaning (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 358). Amsterdam: John Be0
Lise Fontaine, Katy Jones and David Schönthal, Referring in language: An integrated approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. x + 243. I0
‘If ur from Toronto you’ll understand’: register change and metadiscursive engagement with mediatized Multicultural Toronto English0
A register approach to modal (non-)concord in English: an experimental study of linguistic and social meaning0
AJust SoStory: on the recent emergence of the purpose subordinatorjust so0
Thomas Hoffmann, The cognitive foundation of post-colonial Englishes (Elements in World Englishes). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. iv + 59. ISBN 9781108909730.0
Gasping, chuckling, wheezing, bellowing and co.: the development of speech representation verbs in Late Modern English0
‘Practised among the common people’: ‘vulgar’ pronunciations in eighteenth-century pronouncing dictionaries0
ELL volume 26 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
Accent enregisterment through humour in The Catherine Tate Show0
Larissa Goulart, Variation in university student writing: A communicative text type approach (Studies in Corpus Linguistics 117). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2024. Pp. xviii + 239. ISB0
Negate me not, negate me never: cross-varietal distributional skews in modal negation from a diachronic perspective0
ELL volume 26 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
Identifying alternations in historical corpus data: the genitive alternation in Old English0
Ingrid Paulsen, The emergence of American English as a discursive variety: Tracing enregisterment processes in nineteenth-century U.S. newspapers (Language Variation 7). Berlin: Language Scienc0
Susanne Flach and Martin Hilpert (eds.), Broadening the spectrum of corpus linguistics: New approaches to variability and change (Studies in Corpus Linguistics 105). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John B0
Quantifying relational nouns in corpora0
Raiding the demotic: verse as evidence for speech prosody in Old and Middle English0
The axes of time: spatiotemporal relations in Old English vocabulary0
Mel Evans, Royal voices: Language and power in Tudor England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xi + 269. ISBN 9781107131217.0
Bert Cappelle, Can Construction Grammar be proven wrong? (Elements in Construction Grammar). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 74. ISBN 9781009343176.0
Introduction0
Direct evidentiality in the grammar of English: must have in a London dialect0
Sonja Poulsen, Collocations as a language resource: A functional and cognitive study in English phraseology (Human Cognitive Processing 71). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2022. Pp. xvi +0
Nicholas Brownlees (ed.), The Edinburgh history of the British and Irish press, vol. 1: Beginnings and consolidation, 1640–1800. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023. Pp. xxviii + 692. I0
Expanding the scope of grammatical variation: towards a comprehensive account of genitive variation across registers0
Susanne Mühleisen , Genre in World Englishes: Case studies from the Caribbean (Varieties of English Around the World, G67). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2022. Pp. viii + 229. ISBN 978900
Deicticthisand speaker containment0
Ruth Kircher and Lena Zipp (eds.), Research methods in language attitudes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xix + 409. ISBN 9781108867788.0
Giulia Rambelli, Constructions and compositionality: Cognitive and computational explorations (Cambridge Elements in Construction Grammar). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. iv + 96. IS0
Functional idiosyncrasies of suggesting constructions in British English0
The syntactic status of V-final conjunct clauses in Old English: the role of priming0
As if that wasn't enough: Englishas ifclauses as multimodal utterance constructions0
Tied together, fried together: understanding semantic extensibility through semantic loss0
Ljubica Leone, Composite predicates in Late Modern English (Routledge Focus on Linguistics). London: Routledge, 2024. Pp. vi + 84. ISBN 9781032524887.0
Fragments: a usage-based view0
Breaking free from the be going to / gonna dichotomy? A study of variation in an emerging English modal0
Syntactic fragments in social interaction: a socio-cognitive approach to the syntax of conversation0
Andreas H. Jucker, Politeness in the history of English: From the Middle Ages to the present day. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xii + 210. ISBN 9781108589147.0
Pseudo-partitives in English: an HPSG analysis0
Jacqueline Laws, A constructional account of verb-forming suffixation (Constructional Approaches to Language 36). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2023. Pp. xxiv + 393. ISBN 9789027214119.0
Double modals in contemporary British and Irish speech0
Language change is wicked: semantic and social meaning of a polysemous adjective0
Małgorzata Kowalczyk, Borrowings in informal American English (Studies in English Language). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. xii + 334. ISBN 9781009346917.0
Syllable weight and natural duration in textsetting popular music in English0
Lexicosemantic diffusion in World Englishes: variable meaning–form relations in prospective verbs0
Catherine Watts, Language change and nineteenth-century science: New words, new worlds (Routledge Studies in Cultural History). London and New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. xiii + 248. ISBN 97803677098390
Salikoko S. Mufwene, John R. Rickford, Guy Bailey and John Baugh (eds.), African-American English: Structure, history and use (Routledge Linguistics Classics). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2021. Pp. xvi0
Tracey L. Weldon, Middle-Class African American English. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. xvii + 271. ISBN 9780521719667 (pb).0
Sofia Rüdiger and Daria Dayter (eds.), Corpus approaches to social media (Studies in Corpus Linguistics 98). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2020. Pp. vi + 210. ISBN 9789027207944.0
Pam Peters and Kate Burridge (eds.), Exploring the ecology of World Englishes in the twenty-first century: Language, society and culture. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021. Pp. xvi + 392. IS0
Turo HiltunenandIrma Taavitsainen(eds.), Corpus pragmatic studies on the history of medical discourse (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 330). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins0
(Negated) fragment answers in English: a discourse-oriented and construction-based perspective0
On expanding accountability in the study of genitive variation: a reply to Biber, Szmrecsanyi, Reppen & Larsson (2023)0
Devyani Sharma, From deficit to dialect: The evolution of English in India and Singapore (Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics). Oxford: Oxford University 0
Luisella Caon, Moragh S. Gordon and Thijs Porck (eds.), Unlocking the history of English: Pragmatics, prescriptivism and text types (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 364). Amsterdam and Philadelphi0
Tiago Timponi Torrent , Ely Edison da Silva Matos and Natália Sathler Sigiliano (eds.), Construction Grammar across borders (Benjamins Current Topics 122). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: Jo0
Early metrical and lexicographical evidence for functional stress-shifts0
Morphosyntactic agreement in English: does it help the listener in noise?0
Heidrun Dorgeloh and Anja Wanner, Discourse syntax: English grammar beyond the sentence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xiv + 324. ISBN 9781108557542.0
From street to [ʃʧɹiːt]: the phonology of s -retraction0
Register as a source of non-equivalent contracted constructions: going to and gonna in British English0
Representations of phonological changes ingoatand /r/ in theCollection of Nineteenth-century Grammars(CNG)0
Andrea Nini, A theory of linguistic individuality for authorship analysis (Elements in Forensic Linguistics). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 96. Online ISBN 9781108974851.0
Survival factors in the early Middle English lexicon0
Tamara Bouso, Changes in argument structure: The transitivizing reaction object construction (Linguistic Insights 277). Bern: Peter Lang, 2021. Pp. 392. ISBN 9783034340953.0
Going forward as an adverb0
A sound change that never was: h-loss and vowel lengthening in Old English0
Mark Kaunisto and Marco Schilk (eds.), Challenges in corpus linguistics: Rethinking corpus compilation and analysis (Studies in Corpus Linguistics 118). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2020
Eiji Yamada, Anne Przewozny, Jean-Michel Fournier and Nicolas Ballier (eds.) , New perspectives on English word stress. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University P0
The decline of local anchoring: a quantitative investigation0
Francisco Yus, Smartphone communication: Interactions in the app ecosystem (Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture). London: Routledge, 2022. Pp. xii + 318. ISBN 9781032060668.0
Noticing, identifying and discriminating sociolinguistic variants in England0
Last I heard: on the use of evidential last I fragments0
Elizabeth Peterson, Turo Hiltunen and Joseph Kern (eds.), Discourse-pragmatic variation and change: Theory, innovations, contact. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xxviii + 332. 0
Lois Kemp, English evidential -ly adverbs from a functional perspective. Amsterdam: LOT (Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics 682), 2024. Pp. xv + 143. ISBN 9789460934667.0
Elaine J. Francis, Gradient acceptability and linguistic theory (Oxford Surveys in Syntax & Morphology). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. xv + 270. ISBN 9780192898951.0
Special issue on speech representation in Late Modern English text types: introduction0
Is morphosyntactic agreement reflected in acoustic detail? Thesduration of English regular plural nouns0
English comparative modals and their complements0
Alba E. Ruz, Cristina Fernández-Alcaina and Cristina Lara-Clares (eds.), Paradigms in word formation: Theory and applications (Studies in Language Companion Series 225). Amsterdam and Ph0
Yoko Iyeiri, Benjamin Franklin’s English: Form to function analyses (Routledge Studies in Linguistics). London and New York: Routledge, 2025. Pp. 256. IS0
Phrasal verbs in Early Modern English spoken language: a colloquialization conspiracy?0
Elisa Mattiello , Transitional morphology: Combining forms in modern English (Studies in English Language). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. v + 238. ISBN 9781009168281.0
Elizabeth Closs Traugott , Ten lectures on a diachronic constructionalist approach to Discourse Structuring Markers (Distinguished Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics 27). Leiden and Boston: Brill, 20220
Sandrine Sorlin, The stylistics of ‘you’: Second-person pronoun and its pragmatic effects. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xii + 256. ISBN 9781108833028.0
Paula Rautionaho, Hanna Parviainen, Mark Kaunisto and Arja Nurmi (eds.), Social and regional variation in World Englishes: Local and global perspectives (Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics). New Yo0
Holger Diessel, The constructicon: Taxonomies and networks (Elements in Construction Grammar). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. vi + 93. ISBN 9781009327817.0
Geoff Lindsey, English after RP: Standard British pronunciation today. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. Pp. xvi + 153. ISBN 9783030043568.0
The role of meaning in the rivalry of -ity and -ness : evidence from distributional semantics0
Merja Stenroos and Kjetil V. Thengs (eds.), Records of real people: Linguistic variation in Middle English local documents (Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics 11). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 20200
Reconstructing the historical phonology of Old English0
Elena Seoane, M. G. Sanchez, Lucía Loureiro-Porto and Cristina Suárez-Gómez (eds.), Gibraltarians and their language: 22 linguistic biographies (Miscelán0
Xin Sennrich, The many faces of English -ing (Topics in English Linguistics 111). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2022. Pp. ix + 203. ISBN 9783110764383.0
The phonologically voiceless fricatives of Old English (noch einmal)0
On the rise of be having to in English: a cognitive-functional account0
Aneider Iza Erviti, Discourse constructions in English: Meaning, form, and hierarchies (Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics). Cham: Springer, 2021. Pp. xiv + 164. ISBN 9783030716790 (hb), 970
A history of prenominal passive participles in English: from resultatives to eventives0
The lexicon–syntax boundary in English numerals: cardinals, ordinals and fractionals0
Dialect levelling and Cockney diphthong shift reversal in South East England: the case of the Debden Estate0
Constructing a hierarchical network of prefixal up from a Construction Morphology perspective0
Talking to peasants: language, place and class in British fiction 1800–18360
Investigating diachronic shifts within a domain of English modality: a study of collocates with well0
‘Quirky construction looking for syntactically flexible verb’: creativity and productivity in a dynamic link-based network perspective0
Regularized modal verbs in Middle English dialects0
Variation and change in the productivity of begoing to V in the Corpus of Historical American English, 1810–20090
Elnora ten Wolde, The English binominal noun phrase: A Cognitive-Functional approach (Studies in English Language). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. xx + 310. ISBN 9781108921893.0
Laurel J. Brinton, Pragmatics in the history of English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. xiv + 256. ISBN 9781009322874 (pb).0
Christopher Strelluf and Matthew J. Gordon, The origins of Missouri English: A historical sociophonetic analysis. London: Lexington Books, 2024. Pp. 328. ISBN 9781498597265.0
Elena Seoane and Douglas Biber (eds.), Corpus-based approaches to register variation (Studies in Corpus Linguistics 103). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2021. Pp. xi + 341. 0
Is there a new which in town?0
Familiarwhen-relatives and peculiarwhen-relatives in English0
Claudia Claridge, Ewa Jonsson and Merja Kytö, Intensifiers in Late Modern English: A sociopragmatic approach to courtroom discourse (Studies in English L0
Separated by a common im/politeness marker: please in American and British web-based English0
Is [nuz] really the new [njuz]? Yod dropping in Toronto English0
The coinages in Seuss0
Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Discourse structuring markers in English: A historical constructionalist perspective on pragmatics (Constructional Approaches to Language 33). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: Joh0
Tobias Bernaisch (ed.), Gender in World Englishes (Studies in English Language). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. xv + 235. ISBN 9781108696739.0
Epistemic space and key concepts in early and late modern medical discourse: an exploration of two genres0
Metrical evidence for the evolution of English syntax0
Lea Kawaletz , The semantics of English -ment nominalizations (Empirically Oriented Theoretical Morphology and Syntax 12). Berlin: Language Science Press, 2023. Pp. viii + 203. ISBN 978398554070
Xinyue Yao, The present perfect and the preterite in Late Modern and Contemporary English: A corpus-based study of grammatical change (Studies in Corpus Linguistics 114). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: J0
Rodney Huddleston, Geoffrey K. PullumandBrett Reynolds, A student's introduction to English grammar, 2nd edn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xx + 400. ISBN 9781316514641 (hb),0
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