Introduction / Susanne Flach and Martin Hilpert -- New perspectives. Competing future constructions and the Complexity Principle: a contrastive outlook / Olaf Mikkelsen and Stefan Hartmann -- Diachronic learner corpus research: examining learner language through the lens of time / Gaëtanelle Gilquin -- Rhoticity in Southern New Zealand English: an acoustic analysis of the QuakeBox database / Marco Schilk and Lena Pickert -- Revisiting old debates. "I'm putting some salt in my sandwich": the use of the progressive in EFL textbook conversation / Elen Le Foll -- Determinants of exaptation in verb-object predicates in the transition from Late Middle English to Early Modern English / Javier Pérez-Guerra -- Recent changes in spoken British English in verbal and nominal constructions / Gerold Schneider -- "Oh yeah, one more thing: it's gonna be huge": on the use of oh yeah in journalistic writing / Samuel Bourgeois -- Refinements & innovations. Retrieving Twitter argumentation with corpus queries and discourse analysis / Nathan Dykes, Philipp Heinrich and Stephanie Evert -- MuPDAR for corpus-based learner and variety studies: two (more) suggestions for improvement / Stefan Th. Gries -- A data-driven approach to finding significant changes in language use through time series analysis / Andrew Kehoe, Matt Gee and Antoinette Renouf.
Summary:
"This volume presents a snapshot of the current state of the art of research in English corpus linguistics. It contains selected papers from the 40th ICAME conference in 2019 and features contributions from experts in synchronic, diachronic, and contrastive linguistics, as well as sociolinguistics, phonetics, discourse analysis and learner language. The volume showcases the particular strengths of research in the ICAME tradition. The papers in this volume offer new insights from the reanalysis of new data types, methodological refinements and advancements of quantitative analysis, and from taking new perspectives on ongoing debates in their respective fields"-- Provided by publisher.
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