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International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
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OUT NOW: Rose Stamp provides a comprehensive review of the current state of sign language corpora around the world – discussing video capture, transcription, and coding and how these relate to corpus compilation in terms of representativeness, searchability and open access
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Sign language corpora designed for sociolinguistic research | John Benjamins
Abstract
Sign language corpora are generally under-represented in the field of corpus linguistics. Fortunately, in the last
twenty years there has been a steady rise in their creation, following techn...
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November 10, 2025 at 9:17 AM
OUT NOW: Rose Stamp provides a comprehensive review of the current state of sign language corpora around the world – discussing video capture, transcription, and coding and how these relate to corpus compilation in terms of representativeness, searchability and open access
doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
la semaine prochaine
but
la raison suivante
Looi, Riget, Boulton & Hassan discuss synonym alternation between French prochain and suivant, using corpus evidence and statistical methods to re-examine variables derived through introspection
#OnlineFirst #FrenchLinguistics
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la raison suivante
Looi, Riget, Boulton & Hassan discuss synonym alternation between French prochain and suivant, using corpus evidence and statistical methods to re-examine variables derived through introspection
#OnlineFirst #FrenchLinguistics
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From theory to data | John Benjamins
Abstract
This paper presents a corpus-based study that evaluates variables identified introspectively by Berthonneau (2002) in relation to the alternation between two French synonymous:
prochain (‘nex...
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October 31, 2025 at 12:14 PM
la semaine prochaine
but
la raison suivante
Looi, Riget, Boulton & Hassan discuss synonym alternation between French prochain and suivant, using corpus evidence and statistical methods to re-examine variables derived through introspection
#OnlineFirst #FrenchLinguistics
doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
but
la raison suivante
Looi, Riget, Boulton & Hassan discuss synonym alternation between French prochain and suivant, using corpus evidence and statistical methods to re-examine variables derived through introspection
#OnlineFirst #FrenchLinguistics
doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
OUT NOW: @leighharrington.bsky.social , @drkevingerigk.bsky.social & Maria Fano Gonzalez offer a corpus-assisted discourse analysis of representations of fuel poverty and the (new) fuel poor in UK newspapers
Work carried out in association with fuelpovertyresearch.net
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Work carried out in association with fuelpovertyresearch.net
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Plunged into fuel poverty | John Benjamins
Abstract
Fuel poverty, a household’s inability to achieve thermal comfort in line with a healthy standard of living at a
reasonable cost, became an increasingly prevalent and visible socio-economic is...
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October 28, 2025 at 3:28 PM
OUT NOW: @leighharrington.bsky.social , @drkevingerigk.bsky.social & Maria Fano Gonzalez offer a corpus-assisted discourse analysis of representations of fuel poverty and the (new) fuel poor in UK newspapers
Work carried out in association with fuelpovertyresearch.net
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Work carried out in association with fuelpovertyresearch.net
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"I feel a wave of affection.."
"il sera fou de joie…"
OUT NOW: Iva Novakova, Olivier Kraif, & Marion Gymnich's contrastive corpus analysis sheds light on the phraseological motifs observed in the French and English romance novel genre.
#LiteraryGenre #CorpusStylistics
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"il sera fou de joie…"
OUT NOW: Iva Novakova, Olivier Kraif, & Marion Gymnich's contrastive corpus analysis sheds light on the phraseological motifs observed in the French and English romance novel genre.
#LiteraryGenre #CorpusStylistics
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Exploring the ‘language of intimacy’ in English and French romance novels by means of a corpus-driven
approach | John Benjamins
Abstract
Subgenres of the novel have traditionally been defined first and foremost in terms of their content. Yet, in
addition to revisiting themes, settings, plot patterns and character constellation...
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October 17, 2025 at 12:48 PM
"I feel a wave of affection.."
"il sera fou de joie…"
OUT NOW: Iva Novakova, Olivier Kraif, & Marion Gymnich's contrastive corpus analysis sheds light on the phraseological motifs observed in the French and English romance novel genre.
#LiteraryGenre #CorpusStylistics
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"il sera fou de joie…"
OUT NOW: Iva Novakova, Olivier Kraif, & Marion Gymnich's contrastive corpus analysis sheds light on the phraseological motifs observed in the French and English romance novel genre.
#LiteraryGenre #CorpusStylistics
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spooktacular, momfluencer, pupperazi..
How do combining forms operate and what meaning is transferred?
Jinhong Huang and Yongwei Gao examine the evidence for 10 combining forms in American English to map out their schematic extensions and stability
#WordFormation
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How do combining forms operate and what meaning is transferred?
Jinhong Huang and Yongwei Gao examine the evidence for 10 combining forms in American English to map out their schematic extensions and stability
#WordFormation
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A corpus-based study into new combining forms in American English | John Benjamins
Abstract
This study examines 10 new combining forms (CFs) in American English from both diachronic and synchronic
perspectives, based on data from the Corpus of Historical American English, the Corpus...
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October 10, 2025 at 9:44 AM
spooktacular, momfluencer, pupperazi..
How do combining forms operate and what meaning is transferred?
Jinhong Huang and Yongwei Gao examine the evidence for 10 combining forms in American English to map out their schematic extensions and stability
#WordFormation
doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
How do combining forms operate and what meaning is transferred?
Jinhong Huang and Yongwei Gao examine the evidence for 10 combining forms in American English to map out their schematic extensions and stability
#WordFormation
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OUT NOW: Fonteyn, Manjavacas & De Regt show how large predictive language models can be used to (semi-)automatically annotate corpus data.
In this example, Early Modern English -ing forms are automatically classified by means of the historical English model MacBERTh.
#BERT
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In this example, Early Modern English -ing forms are automatically classified by means of the historical English model MacBERTh.
#BERT
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Using machine learning to automate data annotation in corpus linguistics | John Benjamins
Abstract
A wealth of linguistic data has been annotated by corpus linguists, and this extant annotated data can be used to
automatically replicate and apply the linguist’s annotation scheme by means o...
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September 22, 2025 at 9:13 AM
OUT NOW: Fonteyn, Manjavacas & De Regt show how large predictive language models can be used to (semi-)automatically annotate corpus data.
In this example, Early Modern English -ing forms are automatically classified by means of the historical English model MacBERTh.
#BERT
doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
In this example, Early Modern English -ing forms are automatically classified by means of the historical English model MacBERTh.
#BERT
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This paper appears as part of our Special Issue: Reproducibility, replicability, and robustness in corpus linguistics,
from guest editors Martin Schweinberger and Michael Haugh.
A reminder of the contributions to this issue:
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from guest editors Martin Schweinberger and Michael Haugh.
A reminder of the contributions to this issue:
1. doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
2. doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
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September 12, 2025 at 2:39 PM
This paper appears as part of our Special Issue: Reproducibility, replicability, and robustness in corpus linguistics,
from guest editors Martin Schweinberger and Michael Haugh.
A reminder of the contributions to this issue:
1. doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
2. doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
...
from guest editors Martin Schweinberger and Michael Haugh.
A reminder of the contributions to this issue:
1. doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
2. doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
...
OUT NOW: Maud Reveilhac and @geraldschneider.bsky.social present a replication study, applying their approach to stance detection to social media data.
Their model is shown to be transferable and performs competitively alongside other machine learning methods.
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Their model is shown to be transferable and performs competitively alongside other machine learning methods.
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Evaluating a transparent and interpretable approach to stance detection using linguistic markers in social media
data | John Benjamins
Abstract
Our study focuses on replicability, which entails researchers’ ability to achieve similar results to a prior study
using identical methods but a different yet comparable dataset. We address t...
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September 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
OUT NOW: Maud Reveilhac and @geraldschneider.bsky.social present a replication study, applying their approach to stance detection to social media data.
Their model is shown to be transferable and performs competitively alongside other machine learning methods.
doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
Their model is shown to be transferable and performs competitively alongside other machine learning methods.
doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
That's right: remmeber life before the Covid-19 pandemic?
@journolinguist.bsky.social explores potential nostalgic markers in news about Covid as a methodological reflection on hypothesis-testing in #corpuslinguistics
What do we learn when we don't get expected results?
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@journolinguist.bsky.social explores potential nostalgic markers in news about Covid as a methodological reflection on hypothesis-testing in #corpuslinguistics
What do we learn when we don't get expected results?
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September 10, 2025 at 9:06 AM
That's right: remmeber life before the Covid-19 pandemic?
@journolinguist.bsky.social explores potential nostalgic markers in news about Covid as a methodological reflection on hypothesis-testing in #corpuslinguistics
What do we learn when we don't get expected results?
doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
@journolinguist.bsky.social explores potential nostalgic markers in news about Covid as a methodological reflection on hypothesis-testing in #corpuslinguistics
What do we learn when we don't get expected results?
doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
OUT NOW: Alan Partington and @diegolieugenia.bsky.social advance Lexical Priming (LP) theory, responding to Michael Hoey's desire that the theory be tested on discourse types that go beyond newspaper texts and in languages other than English – in this instance, Japanese.
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Lexical Priming theory | John Benjamins
Abstract
This paper is an early step in a wider project which, on the behest of the late Prof Michael Hoey, attempts to
review the evolution of Lexical Priming (LP) theory since its first appearance i...
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September 2, 2025 at 2:40 PM
OUT NOW: Alan Partington and @diegolieugenia.bsky.social advance Lexical Priming (LP) theory, responding to Michael Hoey's desire that the theory be tested on discourse types that go beyond newspaper texts and in languages other than English – in this instance, Japanese.
doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
OUT NOW: Qiao Gan and Min Wang examine divergence in the probabilistic grammar of the dative alternation between native English speakers and Chinese EFL learners.
Perceptual salience and processing load are shown to be factors determining use of English dative alternation.
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Perceptual salience and processing load are shown to be factors determining use of English dative alternation.
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Examining contextual constraints on the English dative alternation in L2 written production | John Benjamins
Abstract
This study examines how contextual factors influence the English dative alternation in written production by Chinese EFL learners, with native English usage serving as the benchmark for compa...
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August 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM
OUT NOW: Qiao Gan and Min Wang examine divergence in the probabilistic grammar of the dative alternation between native English speakers and Chinese EFL learners.
Perceptual salience and processing load are shown to be factors determining use of English dative alternation.
doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
Perceptual salience and processing load are shown to be factors determining use of English dative alternation.
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OUT NOW: Heng Gong, Feng Cao & Lingling Liu compare the use of interactive metadiscourse features in research articles written by Chinese scholars in Chinese and in English, alongside L1 English texts.
How do writers adapt to the different language contexts?
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How do writers adapt to the different language contexts?
Find out here: doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
Interactive metadiscourse across languages and writer groups | John Benjamins
Abstract
Although English has become a lingua franca for academic publication, a growing number of multilingual scholars
prefer to publish in both English and their first languages. This corpus-based ...
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August 19, 2025 at 10:48 AM
OUT NOW: Heng Gong, Feng Cao & Lingling Liu compare the use of interactive metadiscourse features in research articles written by Chinese scholars in Chinese and in English, alongside L1 English texts.
How do writers adapt to the different language contexts?
Find out here: doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
How do writers adapt to the different language contexts?
Find out here: doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
Here is a quick recap of the book reviews we have seen published recently in IJCL, available #onlinefirst.
Starting with:
Ding Huang’s review of Meyer (2023), ‘English corpus linguistics: An introduction’ (Cambridge University Press) doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
Starting with:
Ding Huang’s review of Meyer (2023), ‘English corpus linguistics: An introduction’ (Cambridge University Press) doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
Review of Meyer (2023): English corpus linguistics: An introduction | John Benjamins
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July 7, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Here is a quick recap of the book reviews we have seen published recently in IJCL, available #onlinefirst.
Starting with:
Ding Huang’s review of Meyer (2023), ‘English corpus linguistics: An introduction’ (Cambridge University Press) doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
Starting with:
Ding Huang’s review of Meyer (2023), ‘English corpus linguistics: An introduction’ (Cambridge University Press) doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
What factors predict adverb placement in learners' spoken English?
Larsson et al. investigate the distribution of adverbs produced by leaners from 7 language backgrounds, considering the role of L1 transfer alongside linguistic context variables.
#L2English #L1English
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Larsson et al. investigate the distribution of adverbs produced by leaners from 7 language backgrounds, considering the role of L1 transfer alongside linguistic context variables.
#L2English #L1English
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Adverb placement in L1 and L2 spoken production | John Benjamins
Abstract
Most existing research on adverb placement has focused exclusively on writing. This is unfortunate, given that the
spoken mode offers limited opportunity for pre-planning and post-editing and...
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July 4, 2025 at 10:12 AM
What factors predict adverb placement in learners' spoken English?
Larsson et al. investigate the distribution of adverbs produced by leaners from 7 language backgrounds, considering the role of L1 transfer alongside linguistic context variables.
#L2English #L1English
doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
Larsson et al. investigate the distribution of adverbs produced by leaners from 7 language backgrounds, considering the role of L1 transfer alongside linguistic context variables.
#L2English #L1English
doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
Martin Schweinberger and Michael Haugh introduce the IJCL Special Issue on #reproducibility, #replicability and #robustness in corpus linguistics.
Writing in relation to FAIR and CARE principles, the authors provide actionable strategies for enhancing rigor.
#openscience
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Writing in relation to FAIR and CARE principles, the authors provide actionable strategies for enhancing rigor.
#openscience
doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
Reproducibility, replicability, and robustness in corpus linguistics | John Benjamins
Abstract
This introduction to the special issue Reproducibility, Replicability, and Robustness in Corpus
Linguistics calls for more transparent and robust research practices in the field. It situates ...
doi.org
July 4, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Martin Schweinberger and Michael Haugh introduce the IJCL Special Issue on #reproducibility, #replicability and #robustness in corpus linguistics.
Writing in relation to FAIR and CARE principles, the authors provide actionable strategies for enhancing rigor.
#openscience
doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
Writing in relation to FAIR and CARE principles, the authors provide actionable strategies for enhancing rigor.
#openscience
doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
📣 We've got some news! 🥁
We are delighted to welcome @lukeccollins.bsky.social to the #IJCL team!
Luke is joining us as our new assistant editor.
He is taking over from Natalie Finlayson - thank you Natalie for all your work & best of luck with the new projects!
@johnbenjamins.bsky.social
We are delighted to welcome @lukeccollins.bsky.social to the #IJCL team!
Luke is joining us as our new assistant editor.
He is taking over from Natalie Finlayson - thank you Natalie for all your work & best of luck with the new projects!
@johnbenjamins.bsky.social
June 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
📣 We've got some news! 🥁
We are delighted to welcome @lukeccollins.bsky.social to the #IJCL team!
Luke is joining us as our new assistant editor.
He is taking over from Natalie Finlayson - thank you Natalie for all your work & best of luck with the new projects!
@johnbenjamins.bsky.social
We are delighted to welcome @lukeccollins.bsky.social to the #IJCL team!
Luke is joining us as our new assistant editor.
He is taking over from Natalie Finlayson - thank you Natalie for all your work & best of luck with the new projects!
@johnbenjamins.bsky.social
In the second of two papers from our upcoming special issue on #reproducibility and #transparency in CL out today #onlinefirst, Schweinberger & Haugh explore how to improve transparency and reproducibility in qualitative approaches like #corpuspragmatics
#openscience
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#openscience
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June 13, 2025 at 5:56 PM
In the second of two papers from our upcoming special issue on #reproducibility and #transparency in CL out today #onlinefirst, Schweinberger & Haugh explore how to improve transparency and reproducibility in qualitative approaches like #corpuspragmatics
#openscience
benjamins.com/catalog/ijcl...
#openscience
benjamins.com/catalog/ijcl...
In the first of two papers from our upcoming special issue on #reproducibility and #transparency in CL out today #onlinefirst, Laitinen & Rautionaho review 30 studies with data from Twitter/X asking: how transparent are the methods—and how reproducible are the results?
benjamins.com/catalog/ijcl...
benjamins.com/catalog/ijcl...
June 13, 2025 at 5:43 PM
In the first of two papers from our upcoming special issue on #reproducibility and #transparency in CL out today #onlinefirst, Laitinen & Rautionaho review 30 studies with data from Twitter/X asking: how transparent are the methods—and how reproducible are the results?
benjamins.com/catalog/ijcl...
benjamins.com/catalog/ijcl...
In "Grammatical complexity in film dialogue", Maicol Formentelli, Liviana Galiano & Maria Pavesi show how film language mirrors the complexity of spontaneous speech while developing register-specific patterns shaped by the medium
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#corpuslinguistics #filmstudies #SLA
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#corpuslinguistics #filmstudies #SLA
May 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
In "Grammatical complexity in film dialogue", Maicol Formentelli, Liviana Galiano & Maria Pavesi show how film language mirrors the complexity of spontaneous speech while developing register-specific patterns shaped by the medium
benjamins.com/catalog/ijcl...
#corpuslinguistics #filmstudies #SLA
benjamins.com/catalog/ijcl...
#corpuslinguistics #filmstudies #SLA
How stable are word type lists?
In "Achieving stability in corpus-based analysis of word types", @jesse-egbert.bsky.social, Doug Biber, Bethany Gray & @tovelarsson.bsky.social review empirical case studies that challenge assumptions
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#corpuslinguistics #wordlists
In "Achieving stability in corpus-based analysis of word types", @jesse-egbert.bsky.social, Doug Biber, Bethany Gray & @tovelarsson.bsky.social review empirical case studies that challenge assumptions
benjamins.com/catalog/ijcl...
#corpuslinguistics #wordlists
May 23, 2025 at 2:06 PM
How stable are word type lists?
In "Achieving stability in corpus-based analysis of word types", @jesse-egbert.bsky.social, Doug Biber, Bethany Gray & @tovelarsson.bsky.social review empirical case studies that challenge assumptions
benjamins.com/catalog/ijcl...
#corpuslinguistics #wordlists
In "Achieving stability in corpus-based analysis of word types", @jesse-egbert.bsky.social, Doug Biber, Bethany Gray & @tovelarsson.bsky.social review empirical case studies that challenge assumptions
benjamins.com/catalog/ijcl...
#corpuslinguistics #wordlists
How is the phrase “I'm so OCD” used—and challenged—on social media?
Batchelor & Lee-Laminack explore this in 'I'm so OCD lol: A corpus-based study of obsessive-compulsive disorder used as an adjective' benjamins.com/catalog/ijcl...
#corpuslinguistics #mentalhealthdiscourse @gsuresearch.bsky.social
Batchelor & Lee-Laminack explore this in 'I'm so OCD lol: A corpus-based study of obsessive-compulsive disorder used as an adjective' benjamins.com/catalog/ijcl...
#corpuslinguistics #mentalhealthdiscourse @gsuresearch.bsky.social
April 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
How is the phrase “I'm so OCD” used—and challenged—on social media?
Batchelor & Lee-Laminack explore this in 'I'm so OCD lol: A corpus-based study of obsessive-compulsive disorder used as an adjective' benjamins.com/catalog/ijcl...
#corpuslinguistics #mentalhealthdiscourse @gsuresearch.bsky.social
Batchelor & Lee-Laminack explore this in 'I'm so OCD lol: A corpus-based study of obsessive-compulsive disorder used as an adjective' benjamins.com/catalog/ijcl...
#corpuslinguistics #mentalhealthdiscourse @gsuresearch.bsky.social
In the first paper from our upcoming special issue on #reproducibility and #transparency in #corpuslinguistics, Joseph Flanagan clarifies key terms in "Reproducibility, replicability, robustness, and generalizability in corpus linguistics"
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@helsinki.fi #onlinefirst
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@helsinki.fi #onlinefirst
February 14, 2025 at 4:04 PM
In the first paper from our upcoming special issue on #reproducibility and #transparency in #corpuslinguistics, Joseph Flanagan clarifies key terms in "Reproducibility, replicability, robustness, and generalizability in corpus linguistics"
benjamins.com/catalog/ijcl...
@helsinki.fi #onlinefirst
benjamins.com/catalog/ijcl...
@helsinki.fi #onlinefirst
In our first #onlinefirst paper of 2025, the authors show how positions of contrastive adverbs, emphatic pronouns and "quant à" constructions vary in writing vs. speech and formal vs. informal contexts
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@kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social #corpuslinguistics #French #syntax
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@kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social #corpuslinguistics #French #syntax
January 23, 2025 at 6:19 PM
In our first #onlinefirst paper of 2025, the authors show how positions of contrastive adverbs, emphatic pronouns and "quant à" constructions vary in writing vs. speech and formal vs. informal contexts
benjamins.com/catalog/ijcl...
@kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social #corpuslinguistics #French #syntax
benjamins.com/catalog/ijcl...
@kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social #corpuslinguistics #French #syntax
Reposted by IJCL
Our IJCL special issue on ‘Corpus Approaches to Business Communication’ is now out! With thanks to my co-editor @susannekopf.bsky.social and the wonderful authors who produced 5 great papers. Take a look, there’s some truly rich findings and innovative methods in there! benjamins.com/catalog/ijcl...
December 10, 2024 at 3:35 PM
Our IJCL special issue on ‘Corpus Approaches to Business Communication’ is now out! With thanks to my co-editor @susannekopf.bsky.social and the wonderful authors who produced 5 great papers. Take a look, there’s some truly rich findings and innovative methods in there! benjamins.com/catalog/ijcl...