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‘A matter both of curioſity and uſefulneſs’: Compiling the Corpus of English Texts on Language
(Asociación Española de Lingüística de Corpus, 2019)[Abstract] This paper describes the compilation of CETeL, the subcorpus on ‘Language and Linguistics’ in the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing, and discusses the various challenges encountered during the process ... -
A study of finite complementation in late Fourteenth Century English
(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.
(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 ... -
Analising the Coruña Corpus: Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity Markers
(Adam Mickiewicz University, 2022)[Abstract] This paper aims to analyse the concepts of subjectivity and intersubjectivity in scientific writing through the use of stance adverbs perhaps and possibly. These adverbs act as markers of the authors’ presence ... -
“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 ... -
Astronomy, Philosophy, Life Sciences and History Texts: Setting the Scene for the Study of Modern Scientific Writing
(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
(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 in the context of the Coruña Corpus
(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 ... -
Conditionals as interpersonal devices in Late Modern English women’s scientific writing
(Universitat Jaume I, 2023)[Abstract] It is widely recognised that attaining best possible reception of one’s writing within the scientific community is among the main factors that contribute to the rhetorical profile of scientific prose. Authors ... -
Eighteenth century female authors: women and science in the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing
(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"
(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
(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 ... -
Historia, arte y peregrinación en el itinerario irlandés a Compostela
(2009)[Resumen] Este trabajo se acerca al Camino de Santiago que realizaban los peregrinos que llegaban a Galicia a través del mar desde los puertos del Báltico, Países Bajos, Países Escandinavos, norte de Francia, y sobre ... -
Involved In Writing Science: Nineteenth-Century Women in the Coruña Corpus
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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 ...