Ana Díaz-Negrillo

• University of Granada

Paper presented at The Fred Jelinek series, Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics (Charles University, Prague), 2nd May 2022.

The selection of referring expressions (REs) has been investigated extensively in a variety of L1s and L2 language pairs, and in relation to a number of factors which determine their selection, including the (lack of) maintenance of the topic, the distance between the RE and its antecedent, participant activation, number and gender of potential ant...

In this chapter we report on the creation of the Corpus of English as a Foreign Language (COREFL), a learner corpus of written and spoken narratives produced by Spanish and German learners of English as a Foreign Language at various levels of proficiency. We outline the benefits of learner corpora for the study of narratives when compared to more c...

Since the 1970s, findings from Morpheme Order Studies (MOS) have suggested that the emergence of morphemes follows a predictable order in L2 English. In this paper we show how the tools and practices in Learner Corpus Research (LCR) offer a richer descriptive basis, which is achieved with Interlanguage Annotation (ILA), a manual, fined-grained, pur...

English neoclassical compounds rely on a distinct vocabulary stock and present morphological features which raise a number of theoretical questions. Generalisations about neoclassical compounds are also problematic because the output is by no means homogeneous, that is, defining features of neoclassical compounds sometimes co-exist with features th...

Subject-orientation has been described as depending for its occurrence on a number of variables, on whose number or influence there is still little agreement. Based on evidence obtained from the British National Corpus, this paper examines the role of these variables in subject-orientation in “-ly” adverbs as premodifiers in adjective phrases. In p...

This book is a critical appraisal of recent developments in corpus linguistics for the analysis of written and spoken learner data. The twelve papers cover an introductory critical appraisal of learner corpus data compilation and development (section 1); issues in data compilation, annotation and exchangeability (section 2); automatic approaches to...

This book is a critical appraisal of recent developments in corpus linguistics for the analysis of written and spoken learner data. The twelve papers cover an introductory critical appraisal of learner corpus data compilation and development (section 1); issues in data compilation, annotation and exchangeability (section 2); automatic approaches to...

The article examines the role of conceptual fields and semantic relations in predicting the meaning of novel context-free converted words. To this end, it addresses three basic questions: first, whether there are prediction-related regularities between objects falling within a particular conceptual field (and the corresponding names for these objec...

This is a corpus-based study on error associations in English. Statistical analysis has proved powerful to reveal associations between patterns found in a multi-layered error-annotated English learner corpus by Spanish university students.

Learner corpora can serve as a teaching resource for Foreign Lan-guage Teaching (FLT) and contribute empirical insights for Sec-ond Language Acquisition (SLA) research. To support effective querying for the specific classes of data which are relevant un-der the FLT and SLA perspectives, learner corpora ideally should include linguistic annotation....

The papers in this volume derive from the 13th International Morphology Meeting (Vienna 2008). They all address the main topic of the meeting, viz. variation and change in morphology. Inflectional and derivational morphology are represented on equal terms. The focus is on cases of language-internal variation, such as pattern competition, base varia...

BooijGeert, The grammar of words: An introduction to linguistic morphology, 2nd edition (Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. xiv + 345 pp. - Volume 12 Issue 1 - Ana Díaz-Negrillo, Salvador Valera Hernández

Morphological productivity has become a central issue in present-day English word-formation over the past decade. However, most proposals for assessing productivity have focused on the most productive processes and how to measure them, to the detriment of processes which give rise to fewer items than the ones usually studied in analyses of word-for...

Learner corpora are used to investigate computerised learner language so as to gain insights into foreign language learning. One of the methodologies that can be applied to this type of research is computer-aided error analysis (CEA), which, in general terms, consists in the study of learner errors as contained in a learner corpus. Surveys of curre...