Perspectives on Contemporary English: Structure, Variation, Cognition

This volume highlights the dynamic nature of the field of the linguistics of contemporary English. The contributions comprise studies (i) that focus on the structure of linguistic systems, (ii) that take an interest in variation at all linguistic levels, and (iii) that explore what linguistic findings can tell us about human cognition.

This volume highlights the dynamic nature of the field of English Linguistics and features selected contributions from the 8th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English . The contributions comprise studies (i) that focus on the structure of linguistic systems (or subsystems) or the internal structure of specific construction types, (ii) that take an interest in variation at all linguistic levels, or (iii) that explore what linguistic findings can tell us about human cognition in general, and language processing in particular. All chapters represent state-of-the-art research that relies on rigorous quantitative and qualitative analysis and that will inform current and future linguistic practice and theory building.

Autorentext

Manfred Krug is full professor of English Linguistics at the University of Bamberg.

Valentin Werner is associate professor of English Linguistics at the University of Bamberg.

Ole Schützler is full professor for Varieties of English at Leipzig University.

Fabian Vetter is a postdoctoral researcher in English Linguistics at the University of Bamberg.

Inhalt

Manfred Krug, Ole Schützler, Valentin Werner & Fabian Vetter : Introduction: Perspectives on structure, variation and cognition in contemporary English Hanna Mahler : Emerging modals revisited: Comparing English semi-modals and their contractions in the spoken BNC1994 and BNC2014 corpora Roman Zingel : "Man talk slang": The use of pronominal man in grime lyrics Nikolai Beland : The superlative alternation in British and American English: Questionnaire-based insights Javier Pérez-Guerra : Multiple comparatives in English: Modelling variation in the inner circle Yolanda Fernández-Pena : Modelling verb number agreement variation with complex collective subjects in inner-circle varieties of English Axel Bohmann : ICE corpora, register, and omitted variable bias: A multidimensional perspective Göran Wolf : Creative and intellectual mobility: English in the GDR Gerold Schneider : Correlations and predictions of reading times using language models and surprisal .