English Language & Linguistics

Papers
(The TQCC of English Language & Linguistics is 1. 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.)
ArticleCitations
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A collostructional approach to the concealed passive construction in English1
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
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
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
Tony Crowley, Liverpool: A memoir of words. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2023. Pp. 224. ISBN 9781837644384.1
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
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
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