Corpus Linguistics: Refinements and Reassessments

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Antoinette Renouf and Andrew Kehoe: Introduction1. Looking more closely at existing boundaries of the disciplineChristian Mair: Corpus linguistics meets sociolinguistics: the role of corpus evidence in the study of sociolinguistic variation and change{J}oan C. Beal: Creating corpora from spoken legacy materials: variation and change meet corpus linguisticsTuija Virtanen: Discourse linguistics meets corpus linguistics: theoretical and methodological issues in the troubled relationshipTuro Hiltunen and Jukka Tyrkkö: 'Tis well known to barbers and laundresses: Overt references to knowledge in {E}nglish medical writing from the Middle Ages to the Present DayTanja Säily and Jukka Suomela: Comparing type counts: The case of women, men and -ity in early {E}nglish letters2. Examination of a known language feature from a new point of viewKarin Aijmer: Does {E}nglish have modal particlesJulie Van Bogaert: A reassessment of the syntactic classification of pragmatic expressions: the positions of you know and I think with special attention to you know as a marker of metalinguistic awarenessMagnus Ljung: The functions of expletive interjections in spoken {E}nglish3. Examination of the potential of a new corpus, tool, model or technique to extend linguistic knowledge{G}eoffrey {L}eech and Nicholas Smith: Change and constancy in linguistic change: How grammatical usage in written {E}nglish evolved in the period 1931-1991Alexander Onysko, Manfred Markus and Reinhard Heuberger: Joseph Wright’s ‘{E}nglish Dialect Dictionary’ in electronic form: A critical discussion of selected lexicographic parameters and query optionsLilo Moessner: How representative are the ‘Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society’ of 17th-century scientific writing?Bertus van Rooy and Lize Terblanche: A multi-dimensional analysis of a learner corpusAndrew Kehoe and Matt Gee: Weaving web data into a diachronic corpus patchwork4. Re-examination of known linguistic phenomenon in light of further/new dataElisabetta Adami: “To each reader his, their or her pronoun”. Prescribed, proscribed and disregarded uses of generic pronouns in {E}nglishAnna Belladelli: The interpersonal function of going to in written {A}merican {E}nglishMarta Degani: Re-analysing the semi-modal ought to: an investigation of its use in the LOB, FLOB, Brown and Frown corporaJavier Calle-Martín and {A}ntonio Miranda-{G}arcía: On the use of split infinitives in {E}nglishJuhani Rudanko: Exploring change in the system of {E}nglish predicate complementation, with evidence from corpora of recent {E}nglishSara Gesuato: Encoding of goal-directed motion vs resultative aspect in the COME + infinitive constructionGeorgie Columbus: A corpus-based analysis of invariant tags in five varieties of {E}nglishChristoph Rühlemann: Discourse presentation in EFL textbooks: a BNC-based study Göran Kjellmer: Awful adjectives: a type of semantic change in present-day corpora5. Discussion PanelMarianne Hundt: Global {E}nglish – Global Corpora: Report on a panel discussion at the 28th ICAME conference