New Trends and Methodologies in Applied English Language Research: Diachronic, Diatopic and Contrastive Studies (Paperback)

Contents: Carlos Prado-Alonso: Introduction: Exploring New Methodologies in English Language Research ? Fatima Maria Faya-Cerqueiro: Please in the Nineteenth Century: Origin and Position of a Courtesy Marker ? Teo Juvonen: Genitive Variation in Late Middle and Early Modern English: The Persistence of the s-Genitive in the Correspondence Genre ? Paula Rodriguez-Puente: The Effects of Lexicalization, Grammaticalization and Idiomatization on Phrasal Verbs in English: Some Combinations with get as a Test Case ? Milagros Chao-Castro: Does it Fall Short of Expectations? On the Origin and Behavior of the Dual-form Adverb Short/Shortly ? Javier Ruano-Garcia: ‘The Account Book of William Wray’: An Evaluation of Yorkshire Lexis in two Inventories (1599-1600) ? Anissa Dahak: Vowels in Inter-tonic Syllables: A Corpus-based Study ? Ole Schutzler: Unstable Close-mid Vowels in Modern Scottish English ? Katrin Sell: Current Vowel Changes in Irish English: Analysing Galwegian English ? Lize Terblanche: Morphological Productivity: A Black South African English Perspective ? Viktoria Borjesson: Reinforcing and Attenuating Modifiers of Adjectives in Swedish Advanced Learners’ English: A Comparison with Native Speakers ? Svetla Rogatcheva: ‘I’ve only found the answer a few days ago’: Aspect Use in Bulgarian and German EFL Writing ? Susanne Schneider: ‘Progressivity’ in English and Italian: A Typologically Guided Comparative Study ? Beatriz Tizon-Couto: Complement Clauses in a University Learner Spoken English Corpus: Issues Behind Compilation and Analysis.