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“Arguments That Could Possibly Be Urged”: Modal Verbs and Tentativeness in the Coruña Corpus
(2019-07-22)[Abstract] This paper complements previous research into the late Modern English scientific writing uses of the adverbs possibly and perhaps as manifestations of either subjectivity or intersubjectivity, as presented in ... -
Patterns of english scientific writing in the 18th Century: adjectives and other Building-blocks
(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 ... -
CETA as a tool for the study of Modern Astronomy in English
(John Benjamins, 2012)[Abstract] Modern culture can be said to depend on writing to such an extent that if scientific knowledge is not written it simply does not exist (Hyland, 1998). It is easy to observe, when glancing through any more or ... -
Adjectival forms in Middle English: syntactic and semantic implications.
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2002)[Abstract] Our main purpose in this paper is to look into the place of adjectives in a particular period in the history of English as regards their position in the Noun Phrase and whether such position may somehow alter ... -
"The golden rule of divine philosophy" exemplified in the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing
(Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 2011)[Abstract] 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 1900 and has been compiled by ...
