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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 Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing: Challenge and Reward
(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.
MuStE: the Dimensions of Linguistic Research at UDC
(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 ...
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). ...
Persuasion in English Philosophy Texts (CEPhiT)
(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 ...
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 ...
Stance is present in scientific writing, indeed. Evidence from the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing
(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 ...
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 ...
The limits of my language are the limits of my world: The Scientific Lexicon from 1350 to 1640
(Slovak Association for the Study of English (SKASE), 2009)
[Abstract] A diachronic compilation of different types of texts such as the Helsinki Corpus provides adequate material for a preliminary approach to the degree of diffusion of scientific/technical vocabulary (mainly nouns). ...
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 ...