Abstract The Coruña Corpus (CC): a Collection of Samples for the Historical Study of
English Scientific Writing is a project on which the MUSTE group has been working since …

In modern culture our reliance on writing as the veridical expression of ideas is so pervasive
that if scientific knowledge is not written in many ways it simply does not exist (Hyland 1998) …

The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries represent the main period of development of
English scientific register. This register must not be considered as a monolithic entity, but …

The aim of this paper is to offer a description of the Corpus of Historical English Texts
(CHET), one of the several sub-corpora within the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific …

The present paper aims at presenting a new sub-corpus of the Coruña Corpus of English
Scientific Writing. The corpus is a compilation of scientific texts published between 1700 and …

The objective of the present study is to analyse the meaning and function of-ly adverbs in the
scientific register, specifically in history texts, across the eighteenth and nineteenth …

Writing conventions, along with communication in general, have undergone considerable
changes over the last two decades. e irruption of the Internet in the academic world is …

The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries constitute a key period in the development of
English as the language of science and the consequent formation of a “scientific English” …

Despite socio-cultural gender-based prejudice, women have played a role in the
advancement of scientific knowledge for as long as science exists. However, their effort, but …

This paper focuses on the use of certain linguistic features conveying impersonal style in
late Modern English scientific prose (1700–1900). Samples are taken from two subcorpora …