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    • Genre and change in the Corpus of History English Texts 

      Moskowich, Isabel (Göteborg University, 2017)
      [Abstract] This paper provides an overview of the Corpus of History English Texts, one of the component parts of the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing (Moskowich and Crespo 2012), looking in particular at the ...

    • Involved In Writing Science: Nineteenth-Century Women in the Coruña Corpus 

      Crespo, Begoña; Moskowich, Isabel (Center for Promoting Ideas, 2015)
      [Abstract]The aim of this work is to offer an overview of female scientific writing in English in the nineteenth century. In particular, we want to focus on the analysis of the more or less informational style of texts ...

    • Language Contact and Language Change: The Danes in England 

      Moskowich, Isabel (Universidad de Alicante, Departamento de Filología Inglesa, 1995)
      [Abstract]The influence of the Scandinavian dialects on English has been often studied though no significant progress seems to have been achieved. The major aim of this paper is to offer a methodological approach which can ...

    • Language Windowing through Corpora 

      Moskowich, Isabel; Crespo, Begoña; Lareo, Inés; Lojo Sandino, Paula (Universidade da Coruña, Servizo de Publicacións, 2021)
      [Abstract] The collection of essays we are presenting here are just a mere sample of the interest the topics relating to Corpus Linguistics have arisen everywhere. Such different topics as those related to Computational ...

    • Lexical Richness in Modern Writers: evidence from the Corpus of History English Texts 

      Moskowich, Isabel (Universidad de La Laguna, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2016)
      [Abstracts] This paper addresses the issue of lexical density and its popularity after the arrival of corpus linguistics and its methodology. In fact, this is now one of the most frequently used descriptive tools in the ...

    • Linking ideas in women's writing: evidence from the Coruña Corpus 

      Moskowich, Isabel; Monaco, Leida María (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, 2016)
      [Abstract]This paper provides an overview of some rhetorical devices found in scientific works by late Modern English women. We will focus on apparently marginal linguistic elements as devices fundamental for the expression ...

    • Lop-webbe and henne cresse: morphological aspects of the scientific register in late Middle English 

      Moskowich, Isabel; Crespo, Begoña (De Gruyter, 2006)
      [Abstract]The aim of the present paper is to present an approach to the vernacularisation of English scientific texts with special attention to lexicon. Word-formation is a better indicator than other linguistic levels ...

    • Medicine, Astronomy, affixes and others: an account of verb formation in some Early Scientific works 

      Crespo, Begoña; Moskowich, Isabel (Universidad de Oviedo, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2006)
      [Abstract]The patterns of derivational morphology found in Middle English in general should, theoretically, coincide with those found in an emerging functional variety of English from the same period (scientific writing). ...

    • El mito vikingo: el escandinavo como el "otro" en la Europa medieval 

      Moskowich, Isabel (Universidad de La Laguna, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2002)
      [Resumen]El presente trabajo ofrece una visión de los escandinavos bien diferente de la que ha llegado al resto de los europeos (y, por ende, de la Humanidad) desde la Edad Media. Habida cuenta que esa información vino ...

    • Morphologically complex nouns in english scientific: texts after empiricism 

      Moskowich, Isabel (Bern Open Publishing, 2010)
      [Abstract] The present paper aims at providing a new viewpoint on the development of scientific writing as regards its lexicon following the introduction of the scientific method in England. Although it will not provide ...

    • MuStE: the Dimensions of Linguistic Research at UDC 

      Moskowich, Isabel; Crespo, Begoña (Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos (Aedean), 2019)
      [Abstract] MuStE stands for Research Group for Multidimensional Corpus-based Studies in English. Of course, it is also an old-fashioned form of the verb must, which may reflect some of the characteristics of the people ...

    • “Of medicines sedatives”: some notes on adhective position 

      Moskowich, Isabel (Faculty of English. Adam Mickiewicz University (Poland), 2009)
      The position of adjectives in the English Noun Phrase is regarded as something quite fixed and pertaining to the level of syntax rather than to any other. In previous studies (Moskowich 2002; Moskowich – Crespo 2002; ...

    • Patterns of english scientific writing in the 18th Century: adjectives and other Building-blocks 

      Moskowich, Isabel (John Benjamins, 2012)
      [Abstract] It is often claimed that the written register tends to reflect a nominal style, in which nouns, phrases and adjectives abound, whereas a verbal style, containing higher proportions of verbs, complement clauses ...

    • Personal Pronouns in CHET and CECheT: Authorial Presence and Other Nuances Revealed 

      Moskowich, Isabel (Kaunas University of Technology, 2020)
      [Abstract] This paper aims at presenting a portrait of late Modern English scientific writing by studying its use of first-person pronouns. Pronouns reveal authorial presence and their quantification may be helpful. Following ...

    • Persuasion in English Philosophy Texts (CEPhiT) 

      Crespo, Begoña; Moskowich, Isabel (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, 2015)
      [Abstract]The aim of this paper is to offer a description of the Corpus of English Philosophy Texts (CEPhiT) as well as to present a pilot study on persuasion strategies. Although this corpus contains samples from the ...

    • Pronouns as stance markers in the Coruña Corpus : an analysis of the CETA, CEPhiT and CHET. 

      Moskowich, Isabel (Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, 2017)
      [Abstract] It is now widely accepted that knowledge is negotiated and negotiation implies involvement on the part of both readers and writers. Since there seems to be some connection between involvement and stancetaking ...

    • Scandinavian loanwords during the middle english period: geographical distribution 

      Moskowich, Isabel (Universidade da Coruña, 1997)

    • Scandinavians and Anglo-Saxons: Lexical Substitution and Lexical Change in English 

      Moskowich, Isabel (Universitat Jaume I, 2004)
      [Abstract]Though this may not be a very fortunate reivindication these days, it is clear that the study of the History of English enables us to understand present-day phenomena. History in general and the history of ...

    • Some editions of The Bruce. A comparative account 

      López Couso, M. José; Moskowich, Isabel (Universidad de Oviedo, Servicio de Publicaciones, 1994)
      [Abstract] The Bruce by John Barbour has been traditionally regarded as the landmark of Scottish literature. Several editions of the work have been made since the earliest printed version of the late 16th or the first years ...

    • Stance in the corpus of English life sciences texts: A vindication of text-reading 

      Moskowich, Isabel; Crespo, Begoña (Universitat Jaume I, 2023)
      [Abstract] Stance in academic writing has been discussed extensively within the fields of discourse analysis andpragmatics (Alonso-Almeida, 2015; Hyland,2005; White, 2003). Thus, Hyland and Jiang (2016) identify certain ...