OUT NOW: Fonteyn, Manjavacas & De Regt show how large predictive language models can be used to (semi-)automatically annotate corpus data. In this example, Early Modern English -ing forms are automatically classified by means of the historical English model MacBERTh. #BERT doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...

This paper appears as part of our Special Issue: Reproducibility, replicability, and robustness in corpus linguistics, from guest editors Martin Schweinberger and Michael Haugh. A reminder of the contributions to this issue: 1. doi.org/10.1075/ijcl... 2. doi.org/10.1075/ijcl... ...

OUT NOW: Maud Reveilhac and @geraldschneider.bsky.social present a replication study, applying their approach to stance detection to social media data. Their model is shown to be transferable and performs competitively alongside other machine learning methods. doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...

That's right: remmeber life before the Covid-19 pandemic? @journolinguist.bsky.social explores potential nostalgic markers in news about Covid as a methodological reflection on hypothesis-testing in #corpuslinguistics What do we learn when we don't get expected results? doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...

OUT NOW: Alan Partington and @diegolieugenia.bsky.social advance Lexical Priming (LP) theory, responding to Michael Hoey's desire that the theory be tested on discourse types that go beyond newspaper texts and in languages other than English – in this instance, Japanese. doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...

OUT NOW: Qiao Gan and Min Wang examine divergence in the probabilistic grammar of the dative alternation between native English speakers and Chinese EFL learners. Perceptual salience and processing load are shown to be factors determining use of English dative alternation. doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...

OUT NOW: Heng Gong, Feng Cao & Lingling Liu compare the use of interactive metadiscourse features in research articles written by Chinese scholars in Chinese and in English, alongside L1 English texts. How do writers adapt to the different language contexts? Find out here: doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...

Here is a quick recap of the book reviews we have seen published recently in IJCL, available #onlinefirst. Starting with: Ding Huang’s review of Meyer (2023), ‘English corpus linguistics: An introduction’ (Cambridge University Press) doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...

What factors predict adverb placement in learners' spoken English? Larsson et al. investigate the distribution of adverbs produced by leaners from 7 language backgrounds, considering the role of L1 transfer alongside linguistic context variables. #L2English #L1English doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...

Martin Schweinberger and Michael Haugh introduce the IJCL Special Issue on #reproducibility, #replicability and #robustness in corpus linguistics. Writing in relation to FAIR and CARE principles, the authors provide actionable strategies for enhancing rigor. #openscience doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...

📣 We've got some news! 🥁 We are delighted to welcome @lukeccollins.bsky.social‬ to the #IJCL team! Luke is joining us as our new assistant editor. He is taking over from Natalie Finlayson - thank you Natalie for all your work & best of luck with the new projects! @johnbenjamins.bsky.social

In the second of two papers from our upcoming special issue on #reproducibility and #transparency in CL out today #onlinefirst, Schweinberger & Haugh explore how to improve transparency and reproducibility in qualitative approaches like #corpuspragmatics #openscience benjamins.com/catalog/ijcl...

In the first of two papers from our upcoming special issue on #reproducibility and #transparency in CL out today #onlinefirst, Laitinen & Rautionaho review 30 studies with data from Twitter/X asking: how transparent are the methods—and how reproducible are the results? benjamins.com/catalog/ijcl...

In "Grammatical complexity in film dialogue", Maicol Formentelli, Liviana Galiano & Maria Pavesi show how film language mirrors the complexity of spontaneous speech while developing register-specific patterns shaped by the medium benjamins.com/catalog/ijcl... #corpuslinguistics #filmstudies #SLA

How stable are word type lists? In "Achieving stability in corpus-based analysis of word types", ‪@jesse-egbert.bsky.social‬, Doug Biber, Bethany Gray & ‪@tovelarsson.bsky.social‬ review empirical case studies that challenge assumptions benjamins.com/catalog/ijcl... #corpuslinguistics #wordlists

How is the phrase “I'm so OCD” used—and challenged—on social media? Batchelor & Lee-Laminack explore this in 'I'm so OCD lol: A corpus-based study of obsessive-compulsive disorder used as an adjective' benjamins.com/catalog/ijcl... #corpuslinguistics #mentalhealthdiscourse @gsuresearch.bsky.social

In the first paper from our upcoming special issue on #reproducibility and #transparency in #corpuslinguistics, Joseph Flanagan clarifies key terms in "Reproducibility, replicability, robustness, and generalizability in corpus linguistics" benjamins.com/catalog/ijcl... @helsinki.fi #onlinefirst

In our first #onlinefirst paper of 2025, the authors show how positions of contrastive adverbs, emphatic pronouns and "quant à" constructions vary in writing vs. speech and formal vs. informal contexts benjamins.com/catalog/ijcl... @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social #corpuslinguistics #French #syntax

Our IJCL special issue on ‘Corpus Approaches to Business Communication’ is now out! With thanks to my co-editor @susannekopf.bsky.social and the wonderful authors who produced 5 great papers. Take a look, there’s some truly rich findings and innovative methods in there! benjamins.com/catalog/ijcl...

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