The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguis

Based on a 1.7-million-word corpus of 160 research articles from both soft and hard knowledge fields, this book sets out to explore how a particular type of nou

The first book-length treatment of signalling nouns in academic English that combines discourse and corpus-based approaches.

This book reports research on the Problem-Solution rhetorical pattern, which has to date received very little attention in corpus-based studies. Insights from g

This volume is about the nature of categories in cognition and the relevance of these in language description, especially classifier systems. The classical view