Statistics lies at the heart of scientific investigation. It helps the researcher to formulate and
test theoretical hypotheses, making generalizations about a population of interest based on …

The completely redesigned Grammar of Spoken and Written English is a comprehensive
corpus-based reference grammar. GSWE describes the structural characteristics of …

Modifiers and modification have been a major focus of inquiry for as long as the formal study
of semantics has existed, and remain at the heart of major theoretical debates in the field …

There are few aspects of any language which reflect the culture of a given speech
community better than its particles. Particles are very often highly idiosyncratic:' …

Lexicalization, a process of language change, has been conceptualized in a variety of ways.
Broadly defined as the adoption of concepts into the lexicon, it has been viewed by …

The use of corpora in translation studies, both as a tool for translators and as a way of
analyzing the process of translation, is growing. This book provides a much-needed …

In the summer of 2008, I gave a talk at an international conference in Brighton. The talk was
about constructions involving multiple hedging in American English (eg, I'm gonna have to …

This paper is meant to be a philosophical contribution to linguistic theorizing. It addresses
the ontological question of the notion of linguistic competence. Linguistic competence is …

This study examines how adverbs of degree tend to collocate with particular words in the
100‐million‐word British National Corpus and considers some possible implications for …

This dissertation is a study of the roles played by degree modifiers-functions from sets of
degrees to sets of degrees-across different constructions and languages. The immediate …