• 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 ...
    • 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; ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • Stance is present in scientific writing, indeed. Evidence from the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing 

      Moskowich, Isabel; Crespo, Begoña (Jan Kochanowski University Press, 2014)
      [Abstract]Stance as a pragmatic feature has been discussed widely in recent years, although the analysis of its presence in the scientific register has been more limited. Stance is most clearly seen in the use of adverbs ...
    • The Adjective in English: The "French type" and its place in the History of Language 

      Moskowich, Isabel (Walter Mouton de Gruyter, 2002)
      [Abstract] Before proceeding to the analysis of the situation of attributive adjectives in earlier stages of the language I will be concerned with the characteristics of the category "adjective" in present day English and ...
    • The Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing: Challenge and Reward 

      Moskowich, Isabel; Puente-Castelo, Luis; Crespo, Begoña; Camiña-Rioboo, Gonzalo (Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos (Aedean), 2020)
      [Abstract] Short description of the (hi)story of the Coruña Corpus and its Project since its inception.
    • The Coruña Corpus Tool 

      Parapar, Javier; Moskowich, Isabel (Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, 2007)
      [Abstracts] The Coruña Corpus of scientific writing will be used for the diachronic study of scientific discourse from most linguistic levels and thereby contribute to the study of the historical development of English. ...
    • The Coruña Corpus Tool: Ten years on 

      Barsaglini Castro, Anabella; Valcarce, Daniel (Sociedad Española para el Procesamieno del Lenguaje Natural, 2020-03)
      [Resumen] En este artículo presentamos una breve introducción a una nueva versión del Coruña Corpus Tool. Actualmente disponible para Windows, macOS yLinux, el Coruña Corpus Tool es una herramienta de gestión de corpus que ...
    • The Golden Rule of Divine Philosophy exemplified in the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing 

      Moskowich, Isabel (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 ...