Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Biographical notes ix
5. Chapter 1. A corpus-based approach to register variation 1
6. Chapter 2. Extending text-linguistic studies of register variation to a continuous situational space 19
7. Chapter 3. How register-specific is probabilistic grammatical knowledge? 51
8. Chapter 4. Theme as a proxy for register categorization 85
9. Chapter 5. Between context and community 111
10. Chapter 6. A register variation perspective on varieties of English 143
11. Chapter 7. Register and modification in the noun phrase 179
12. Chapter 8. A register approach toward pop lyrics in EFL education 209
13. Chapter 9. On the importance of register in learner writing 235
14. Chapter 10. Nominalizations in Early Modern English 259
15. Chapter 11. Measuring informativity 291
16. Chapter 12. Exploring sub-register variation in Victorian newspapers 313
17. Index 339