The overarching aim of this thesis is to delineate the place of English in Kuwait using
Schneider's (2003; 2007) Dynamic Model. The model posits that postcolonial varieties of …

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in identifying dictionary-relevant lexical
bundles and analysing their lexicographic treatment. However, past research has only …

Theories of entrenchment and usage-based models have revolutionized cognitive linguistics
and are also spearheading the paradigm shift in linguistics from theory-driven to empirical …

Can the promise of data-driven methods hold in historical linguistics? Can they detect
salient syntactic changes and open new research avenues? I first use data-driven measures …

Hedging language is common in business communication. It conveys uncertainty, limits
commitment, and bestows plausible deniabil ity to the speaker. Hedging language is used …

Business Actors communicate to audiences via the mass media through public statements
or informal interviews with journalists. This information is directly quoted in news stories …

Correlations between reading times, collocation and surprisal Page 1 Correlations between
reading times, collocation and surprisal Gerold Schneider Corpora with eye-tracking and …