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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Sunken ships and screaming banshees: metaphor and evaluation in film reviews13
OnThe London–Lund Corpus 2: design, challenges and innovations11
Ethnic and gender variation in the use of Colloquial Singapore English discourse particles11
Beyond modal idioms and modal harmony: a corpus-based analysis of gradient idiomaticity inmod+advcollocations7
The grammaticalization of evidentiality in English7
Attention, identity and linguistic capital: inverted style-shifting in Anglo-Cornish dialect lexis7
Recent change in modality in informal spoken British English: 1990s–2010s6
En[dj]uring [ʧ]unes or ma[tj]ure [ʤ]ukes? Yod-coalescence and yod-dropping in theEighteenth-Century English Phonology Database6
Lexical borrowing in the Middle English period: a multi-domain analysis of semantic outcomes5
Managing information flow through prosody init-clefts5
Conversion in English: homonymy, polysemy and paronymy5
The semantics of Englishout-prefixation: a corpus-based investigation4
ECEP: historical corpora, historical phonology and historical pronouncing dictionaries4
Using theEighteenth-Century English Phonology Database(ECEP) as a teaching resource4
Towards a model of the syntax–discourse interface: a syntactic analysis of please3
foot-fronting andfootstrutsplitting: vowel variation in the East Midlands3
Be like and the Constant Rate Effect: from the bottom to the top of the S-curve3
Yorkshire folk versus Yorkshire boors: evidence for sociological fractionation in nineteenth-century Yorkshire dialect writing2
Representations of phonological changes ingoatand /r/ in theCollection of Nineteenth-century Grammars(CNG)2
From quick to quick-to-infinitival: on what is lexeme specific across paradigmatic and syntagmatic distributions2
Variable assimilation of English word-final /n/: electropalatographic evidence2
Recent developments of the pragmatic markers kind of and sort of in spoken British English2
Lexical diffusion in the making: the lengthening of Middle English /a/ during the eighteenth century and across the diasystem of English2
Constituency and left-sharing in coordination2
Double modals in contemporary British and Irish speech2
Category-free complement selection in causal adjunct phrases2
Speech reflections in Late Modern English pauper letters from Dorset2
Phonesthetics and the etymologies ofbloodandbone2
Social meaning in archival interaction: a mixed-methods analysis of variation in rhoticity and past tense be in Oldham2
‘Well, taakin about he da bring inta me yead wat I promised var ta tell ee about’: representations of south-western speech in nineteenth-century dialect writing2
Hypercorrection in English: an intervarietal corpus-based study2
New insights into English count and mass nouns – the Cognitive Grammar perspective2
Special issue on studies in Late Modern English historical phonology using the Eighteenth-Century English Phonology Database (ECEP): introduction2
Making meaning withbe able to: modality and actualisation2
On the recent history of low vowels in English2
Dialect levelling and Cockney diphthong shift reversal in South East England: the case of the Debden Estate2
AJust SoStory: on the recent emergence of the purpose subordinatorjust so2
Talking to peasants: language, place and class in British fiction 1800–18362
‘Practised among the common people’: ‘vulgar’ pronunciations in eighteenth-century pronouncing dictionaries2
Middle English Open Syllable Lengthening (MEOSL) or Middle English Compensatory Lengthening (MECL)?1
Reflexive analytic causatives: a diachronic analysis of transitivity parameters1
The origins ofowldin Scots1
Speech, writing and boxsets: a messy linguistic change in English1
Special issue on verse structure and linguistic modelling: introductory notes1
Disgusting, obscene and aggravating language: speech descriptors and the sociopragmatic evaluation of speech in theOld Bailey Corpus1
Language change is wicked: semantic and social meaning of a polysemous adjective1
Old Norse-derived lexis in multilingual accounts: a case study1
The ‘nouniness’ of attributive adjectives and ‘verbiness’ of predicative adjectives: evidence from phonology1
Metrical evidence for the evolution of English syntax1
English verbs can omit their objects when they describe routines1
25 years of English Language and Linguistics: a celebration and analysis1
Changes in progress in late Northumbrian: the extension of -s as genitive and plural marker1
The puzzling nuanced status of who free relative clauses in English: a follow-up to Patterson and Caponigro (2015)1
Pronominally headed relative clauses in early English1
Lone pronoun tags in Early Modern English: ProTag constructions in the dramas of Jonson, Marlowe and Shakespeare1
Special issue on spoken language in time and across time: introduction1
The most stable it'severbeen: the preterit/present perfect alternation in spoken Ontario English1
Hans-Jörg Schmid, The dynamics of the linguistic system: Usage, conventionalization, and entrenchment. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xxiii + 397. ISBN 9780198814771.1
Phrasal verbs in Early Modern English spoken language: a colloquialization conspiracy?1
‘Ey, wait, wait, gully!’ Style, stance and the social meaning of attention signals in East London adolescent speech1
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