Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I: Discourse contexts and cultures
5. Patterns of discursive urban place-making in Brooklyn, New York 13
6. The English of current Caribbean newspapers 43
7. Corporate identity and its variation over time 75
8. Applying Geographical Information Systems to researching historical corpora 109
9. Corpus linguistics: Widening the remit 137
10. Part II: Contexts of lexis and grammar
11. Family collocation 165
12. Factors influencing the translation of -ing participial free adjuncts 197
13. The diachronic productivity of native combining forms in American English 223
14. Advise against -ing: An emerging class of exceptions to Bach’s Generalization 253
15. Subjective progressives in the history of American English 275
16. Part III: Learner contexts
17. A syntactic analysis of the introductory it pattern in non-native-speaker and nativespeaker student writing 307
18. Phraseological teddy bears 339
19. “Dear Man ^men and women madam, dear xxx sir” 363
20. Marked themes in advanced learner English 387
21. Phrasal verbs in the spoken and written modes of Norwegian L2 learner English 409
22. Conversational gesture corpus analysis 437
23. Corpus research for SLA 467
24. List of contributors 483
25. Index 487