Corpus linguistics on the move

María José López-Couso, Ph.D. (1994), is Senior Lecturer at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Her main research interests include complementation, existentials, and parentheticals, on which she has published extensively. She is a member of the ICAME Executive Board. Belén Méndez-Naya, Ph.D. (1995), is Senior Lecturer at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Her main areas of research are complementation, intensifiers, parentheticals, and pragmatic markers. She is a member of the Editorial Board of Folia Linguistica (Mouton). Paloma Núñez-Pertejo, Ph.D. (2001), is Senior Lecturer at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. She has published mainly on the progressive, youth language, and intensification. She is a member of the Editorial Board of English Linguistics Research (Sciedu Press).Ignacio M. Palacios-Martínez, Ph.D. (1992), is Senior Lecturer at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, and Director of SPERTUS (Spoken English Research Team at the University of Santiago). He has published extensively on quotatives, vague language, and negative polarity.

• List of figuresList of tablesPreface1. From the fringe to the mainstream: English corpus linguistics moving aheadMaría José López-Couso, Belén Méndez-Naya, Paloma Núñez-Pertejo, and Ignacio M. Palacios-MartínezPart I: Issues in corpus compilation2. English urban vernaculars, 1400–1700: Digitizing text from manuscript Anita Auer, Moragh Gordon, and Mike Olson3. Creating a corpus of student writing in economics: Structure and representativenessMartti Mäkinen and Turo Hiltunen 4. Ongoing changes and advanced L2 use of English: Evidence from new corpus resourcesMikko LaitinenPart II: Investigating register variation through corpora5. Verbs and verb phrases in advanced Dutch ELF writing: Case studies in qualitative and quantitative ELF analysisPieter de Haan6. Discourse-organizing metadiscourse in novice academic English Hilde Hasselgård7. Passives in academic writing: Comparing research articles and student essays across four disciplinesTuro Hiltunen8. Adverbial hapax legomena in news text: Why do some coinages remain hapax?Antoinette RenoufPart III: Corpora and grammar: Examining grammatical variation in space9. English in South Africa: The case of past-referring verb formsJohan Elsness10. A look at participial constructions with get in Hong Kong EnglishEduardo Coto-Villalibre11. Who is the/a/Ø professor at your university? A construction-grammar view on changing article use with single role predicates in American EnglishMarianne Hundt12. Clause fragments in English dialogueJill Bowie and Bas AartsPart IV: Corpus insights into the pragmatics of spoken English13. The expression of directive meaning: A corpus-based study on the variation between imperatives, conditionals and insubordinated if-clauses in spoken British EnglishBeatriz Mato-Míguez14. Taboo language and swearing in eighteenth and nineteenth century English: A diachronic study based on the Old Bailey CorpusBianca Widlitzki and Magnus Huber15. The 'humour' element in engineering lectures across cultures: An approach to pragmatic annotationSiân Alsop

Honoured with the 2017 AESLA Research Award of the Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics.The volume’s major strength lies in the diversified topics presented in the chapters, which offer an impressive glance at the current research trends in corpus linguistics. Many chapters (especially those in Part I) include detailed descriptions of how their target corpora are compiled, parsed, and annotated, and these valuable pieces of information make the volume an ideal reference for researchers considering incorporating corpus-driven approaches into their own research. Another strength of the volume is its recognition of two important trends in World English: the exponential growth of advanced ESL learners and the proliferation of English varieties. The insightful discussions on both topics throughout the volume can be particularly illuminating for scholars working on language change and variation. - Sibo Chen - Simon Fraser University, on: Linguistlist.org