Book Description

A corpus-based approach to register variation / Elena Seoane and Douglas Biber -- Extending text-linguistic studies of register variation to a continuous situational space : case studies from the web and natural conversation / Douglas Biber, Jesse Egbert, Daniel Keller and Stacey Wizner -- How register-specific is probabilistic grammatical knowledge? A programmatic sketch and a case study on the dative alternation with give / Alexandra Engel, Jason Grafmiller, Laura Rosseel, Benedikt Szmrecsanyi and Freek Van de Velde -- Theme as a proxy for register categorization / Javier Pérez-Guerra -- Between context and community : regional variation in register effects in the English dative alternation / Melanie Röthlisberger -- A register variation perspective on varieties of English / Stella Neumann and Stefan Evert -- Register and modification in the noun phrase / Yolande Botha and Maryka van Zyl -- A register approach toward pop lyrics in EFL education / Valentin Werner -- On the importance of register in learner writing : a multi-dimensional approach / Tove Larsson, Magali Paquot and Douglas Biber -- Nominalizations in Early Modern English : a cross-register perspective / Paula Rodríguez-Puente -- Measuring informativity : the rise of compounds as informationally dense structures in 20th-century Scientific English / Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb -- Exploring sub-register variation in Victorian newspapers : evidence from the British Library Newspapers database / Turo Hiltunen.