7 articles in this issue
Abstract – Parallel corpora ? collections of aligned translated texts of two or more languages ? play a significantrole in translation and contrastive studies. Given the importance of the availability of such learning resources forthe education and traini... see more
Abstract – While considerable research has been conducted on the register analysis of English language tertiarytextbooks, relatively little is explored about the register analytical features of secondary textbooks. The purposeof the present pedagogically-... see more
Abstract – Forensic Linguistics is the analysis of the language which is related to law, either as evidence or aslegal discourse. Authorship attribution is the task of identifying the author of a document when the language isused as evidence in a courtroo... see more
Despite the existence of a great number of studies that have analysed ellipsis from a theoretical pointof view, only recently has it been studied empirically using corpora (Hardt 1997; Hardt and Rambow 2001;Nielsen 2005; Bos and Spenader 2011). These corp... see more
In Japanese, word order changes do not affect the grammatical relations between constituents,allowing both SOV and OSV word order. Although it has been assumed that the choice of word order isdetermined by information structure, it is unclear how OSV is r... see more
This paper looks at how illocutionary meaning could be accommodated in FunGramKB, a NaturalLanguage Processing environment designed as a multipurpose lexico-conceptual knowledge base for naturallanguage understanding applications. To this purpose, this st... see more
This study examines the validity of the rationale underlying recent trends towards discipline-specificand phraseological approaches to vocabulary selection for English for Academic Purposes (EAP) courses. Itexamines the behaviour of Coxhead’s (2000) New A... see more