Listar Research Group for Multidimensional Corpus-based Studies in English (MUSTE) por autor "Moskowich, Isabel"
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A Corpus of History Texts (CHET) as part of the Coruña Corpus Project
Crespo, Begoña; Moskowich, Isabel (St. Petersburgh State University, 2015)[Abstract] 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 Writing (CC). The compilation ... -
A look beyond the texts: The samples in the eighteenth-century Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts
Moskowich, Isabel; Lareo, Inés (John Benjamins, 2021)[Abstract] This chapter deals with the eighteenth-century texts we have included in the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts, CELiST, one of the corpora included in the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing. The ... -
A look beyond the texts: the samples in the nineteenth-century Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts
Lareo, Inés; Moskowich, Isabel (John Benjamins, 2021)[Abstract] This chapter complements the previous one in that it deals with the nineteenth-century texts we have included in the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts, CELiST, one of the corpora in the Coruña Corpus of ... -
A study of finite complementation in late Fourteenth Century English
Moskowich, Isabel (Universidade de Vigo, 1997)[Resumen] Este artículo pretende profundizar en el análisis de los modelos de complementación finita (conteniendo formas verbales marcadas) existentes en Inglés Medio y cotejarlos con los períodos lingüísticos inmediatamente ... -
Adjectival forms in Middle English: syntactic and semantic implications.
Moskowich, Isabel; Crespo, Begoña (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 ... -
An introduction to CHET, the Corpus of History English Texts
Moskowich, Isabel (John Benjamins, 2019)[Abstract] The chapter presents the different methodological issues and the theoretical decisions made when facing the compilation of a corpus of texts dealing with History for the late Modern English period. The first ... -
“Arguments That Could Possibly Be Urged”: Modal Verbs and Tentativeness in the Coruña Corpus
Moskowich, Isabel; Crespo, Begoña (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 ... -
Astronomy, Philosophy, Life Sciences and History Texts: Setting the Scene for the Study of Modern Scientific Writing
Crespo, Begoña; Moskowich, Isabel (Routledge, 2020-06-12)[Abstract] The aim of this paper is to offer a description of four of the existing subcorpora of the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing. Both the principles of compilation and the sociolinguistic variables considered ... -
At close range: prefaces and other text types in the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing
Crespo, Begoña; Moskowich, Isabel (Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Servicio de Publicaciones y Difusión Científica, 2016)[Abstract] What we nowadays term “front matter” was conceived of in the past as a direct address to the reader. Over time, standard formulae were developed and certain rhetorical devices consolidated. Late modern authors ... -
CETA as a tool for the study of Modern Astronomy in English
Moskowich, Isabel (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 ... -
CETA in the context of the Coruña Corpus
Crespo, Begoña; Moskowich, Isabel (Oxford University Press, 2010)[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 2003 in the University of A Coruña (Spain). It ... -
Different Paths for Words and Money: The Semantic Field of Commerce and Finance in Middle English
Moskowich, Isabel; Crespo, Begoña (Rodopi, 2007)[Abstract] Our aim in this paper is to examine the relationship between society and language change. Development such as the discovery of new territories and the introduction of new and exotic products and practices are ... -
Eighteenth century female authors: women and science in the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing
Moskowich, Isabel (The Australian Linguistic Society, 2013)[Abstract] This paper explores the use of linguistic features characteristic of impersonal or personal style in scientific writing by female authors in the eighteenth century. Variables such as discipline, subject-matter ... -
Eighteenth-century scientific writing in the Coruña Corpus: English "cultivated by industrious and good hands"
Moskowich, Isabel (Universidad de La Laguna, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2015)[Abstract]This paper aims at comparing the use of classical terms in eighteenth scientific writing in English once the patterns of Scholasticism have been abandoned and the new methods brought about by Empiricism are ... -
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 ... -
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 ...