New Trends And Methodologies In Applied English Language Research: Diachronic, Diatopic And Contrastive Studies (linguistic Insights)

**This book has been shortlisted for an ESSE book award 2012 in English Language and Linguistics, Junior Scholars**. This volume approaches the analysis of variation in English from diachronic, diatopic, and contrastive/comparative perspectives. The individual case studies, all closely interrelated, are organized into three parts or sections. Part I (__Diachronic Studies__) applies a variationist methodology to the analysis of developments in the use of the courtesy marker __please__, adverbs in __-ly__, the __s-__ genitive and a number of phrasal combinations with the verb __get__. It also examines Early Modern English regional dialect vocabulary. Part II (__Diatopic Studies__) is concerned with the analysis of several morphological and phonological features in different varieties of English, namely Standard English, Modern Scottish English, Galwegian English, and Black South-African English. Part III (__Contrastive Studies__) contains four chapters dealing with the contrastive analysis of a number of morphosyntactic features, such as the use of modifiers of adjectives by advanced learners of English, the acquisition and use of aspect by advanced EFL learners with different mother-tongue backgrounds, a comparison of the tempo-aspectual categories of English and Italian, and some of the problems encountered by researchers when compiling and analysing learner corpora of spoken language. Introduction : exploring new methodologies in English language research / CARLOS PRADO-ALONSO Diachronic studies. Please in the nineteenth century : origin and position of a courtesy marker / FÁTIMA MARÍA FAYA-CERQUEIRO Genitive variation in late middle and early modern English : the persistence of the s-genitive in the correspondence genre / TEO JUVONEN The effects of lexicalization, grammaticalization and idiomatization on phrasal verbs in English : some combinations with get as a test case / PAULA RODRÍGUEZ-PUENTE Does it fall short of expectations? on the origin and behavior of the dual-form adverb short/shortly / MILAGROS CHAO-CASTRO "The account book of William Wray" : An evaluation of Yorkshire lexis in two inventories (1599-1600) / JAVIER RUANO-GARCÍA Diatropic studies. Vowels in inter-tonic syllables : a corpus-based study / ANISSA DAHAK Unstable close-mid vowels in modern Scottish English / OLE SCHÜTZLER Current vowel changes in Irish English : analysing Galwegian English / KATRIN SELL Morphological productivity : a Black South African English perspective / LIZE TERBLANCHE Contrastive studies. Reinforcing and attenuating modifiers of adjectives in Swedish advanced learners' English : a comparison with native speakers / Viktoria Börjesson "I've only found the answer a few days ago" : aspect use in Bulgarian and German EFL writing / SVETLA ROGATCHEVA "Progressivity" in English and Italian : a typologically guided comparative study / SUSANNE SCHNEIDER Complement clauses in a university learner spoken English corpus : issues behind compilation and analysis / BEATRIZ TIZ"N-COUTO. This book has been shortlisted for an ESSE book award 2012 in English Language and Linguistics, Junior Scholars.
This volume approaches the analysis of variation in English from diachronic, diatopic, and contrastive/comparative perspectives. The individual case studies, all closely interrelated, are organized into three parts or sections. Part I (Diachronic Studies) applies a variationist methodology to the analysis of developments in the use of the courtesy marker please, adverbs in -ly, the s- genitive and a number of phrasal combinations with the verb get. It also examines Early Modern English regional dialect vocabulary. Part II (Diatopic Studies) is concerned with the analysis of several morphological and phonological features in different varieties of English, namely Standard English, Modern Scottish English, Galwegian English, and Black South-African English. Part III (Contrastive Studies) contains four chapters dealing with the contrastive analysis of a number of morphosyntactic features, such as the use of modifiers of adjectives by advanced learners of English, the acquisition and use of aspect by advanced EFL learners with different mother-tongue backgrounds, a comparison of the tempo-aspectual categories of English and Italian, and some of the problems encountered by researchers when compiling and analysing learner corpora of spoken language. Applies a variationist methodology to the analysis of developments in the use of the courtesy marker please, adverbs in -ly, the s- genitive and a number of phrasal combinations with the verb get. This title approaches the analysis of variation in English from diachronic, diatopic, and contrastive/comparative perspectives.