How do today's teenagers talk? What are the distinguishing features of their style of
language, and what do they tell us about the English language more generally? Drawing on …

This article presents the results of a two-year study of North American youth which produced
a 179,000 word corpus of internet language from the same writers across three registers …

Language Between Description and Prescription is an empirical, quantitative and qualitative
study of nineteenth-century English grammar writing, and of nineteenth-century language …

All living beings try to save effort, and humans are no exception. This groundbreaking book
shows how we save time and energy during communication by unconsciously making …

We use the variationist method to elucidate the expression of future time in English,
examining multiple grammaticalization in the same domain (will and going to). Usage …

The paper proposes a methodology for collecting “open-source” corpora, ie corpora that are
automatically collected from the Internet and distributed in the form of a list of links with open …

Purpose The purpose of this study is to assess the management responses and intentions of
3,279 US firms from all industries, before and after the coronavirus outbreak, to identify the …

Although they are an integral part of everyday life, song lyrics are not included in any of the
standard corpora of English (eg, BNC, ICE, CIC, Brown family) that are currently available. In …

This volume examines the conflicting factors that shape the content and form of grammatical
rules in language usage. Speakers and addressees need to contend with these rules when …

The English go future, a quintessential example of grammaticalization, has shown layering
with will since at least 1490. To date, most synchronic evidence for this development comes …