English Language & Linguistics

Papers
(The TQCC of English Language & Linguistics is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Thijs Porck, Moragh S. Gordon and Luisella Caon (eds.), Keys to the history of English: Diachronic linguistic change, morpho-syntax and lexicography. Selected papers from the 21st ICEHL (Current Issue10
Rong Chen, Towards a motivation model of pragmatics (Mouton Series in Pragmatics 27). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2022. Pp. xvii + 333. ISBN 9783110787580.8
‘The night before beg'd ye queens's pardon and his brother's’: the apostrophe in the history of English6
Flipping the on/off switch: change in progress in the prepositional complements of verbs like base6
On the relationship between linguistic creativity and change in morphological constructions6
Irma Taavitsainen, Turo Hiltunen, Jeremy J. Smith and Carla Suhr (eds.), Genre in English medical writing, 1500–1820: Sociocultural contexts of production and use (Studies in English Lan5
Miriam A. Locher, Andreas H. Jucker, Daniela Landert and Thomas C. Messerli, Fiction and Pragmatics (Cambridge Elements in Pragmatics). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 76. IBSN 9781005
Robert McColl Millar , A history of the Scots language. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. xi + 196. ISBN 9780198863991.5
A quantitative exploration of the functions of auxiliary do in Middle English4
Motivations for specialisation: testing the feasibility of polysemous pre-emption in the competition between will and must4
At ( the ( very )) least in Engl4
Kristin Davidse, Ngum Meyuhnsi Njende and Gerard O’Grady, Specificational and presentational there-clefts: Redefining the field of clefts. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. Pp. xiii + 187.4
Loan verb accommodation: a comparison of Old Norse and French in Middle English3
Insight from obsolescence: English demonstratives as a unique case for the study of doubling3
Ee Ling Low and Anne Pakir (eds.), English in East and South Asia: Policy, features and language in use (Routledge Studies in World Englishes). London and New York: Routledge, 2021. Pp. 3
Allison Burkette, Dialectology and the Linguistic Atlas Project (Cambridge Elements in Sociolinguistics). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 74. ISBN 9781009236647.3
Linguistic change and metre: the demise of adjectival inflections and the scansion of ‘high’ and ‘sly’ in Chaucer, Gower and Hoccleve3
Wiebke H. Ahlers, Consonantal sound change in American English: An analysis of clustered sibilants (Studies in English Language). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. xii + 233. ISBN 978133
Ole Schützler and Julia Schlüter (eds.), Data and methods in corpus linguistics: Comparative approaches. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. xvi + 358. ISBN 9781108731034 (pb).3
Navigating the vernacular across the lifespan: a panel study of the phonetic realisation of the first-person singular possessive3
When English complement clauses meet evidential adverbs2
When to (not) split the infinitive: factors governing patterns of syntactic variation in Twitter-style Philippine English2
Speech reflections in Late Modern English pauper letters from Dorset2
Caroline Gentens, Lobke Ghesquière, William B. McGregor and An Van linden (eds.), Reconnecting form and meaning: In honour of Kristin Davidse (Studies in Language Companion Series 230). Amsterdam and 2
Ewa Jonsson and Tove Larsson (eds.), Voices past and present – Studies of involved, speech-related and spoken texts. In honor of Merja Kytö. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2020. Pp. xiii + 348. ISBN 97890272072
Christopher Williams, The impact of plain language on legal English in the United Kingdom. Abingdon: Routledge, 2022. Pp. xi + 206. ISBN 9780367457297.2
José A. Sánchez Fajardo, Pejorative suffixes and combining forms in English (Studies in Language Companion Series 222). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2022. Pp. xvi + 229. ISBN 9782
Extravagant much? Syntactic creativity because Wayne’s World2
Lynn Anthonissen, Individuality in language change (Trends in Linguistics 360). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2021. Pp. xvi + 323. ISBN 9783110725841.2
Minna Korhonen, Haidee Kotze and Jukka Tyrkkö (eds.), Exploring language and society with big data: Parliamentary discourse across time and space (Studie2
An exploratory investigation of functional variation in South Asian online Englishes2
Marion Neubauer, English nouns since 1150: A typological study (Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] 115). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2024. Pp. xv + 254. ISBN 9783111317472.2
Isabel Moskowich, Inés Lareo and Gonzalo Camiña (eds.), ‘All families and genera’: Exploring the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2021. Pp. xv + 310. 2
Juho Ruohonen and Juhani Rudanko, Infinitival vs gerundial complementation with afraid, accustomed, and prone: Multivariate corpus studies. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. Pp. xii2
Ole Schützler , Concessive constructions in varieties of English (Language Variation 9). Berlin: Language Science Press, 2023. Pp. viii + 270. ISBN 9783961104222.2
The rise of Scots do – transfer or innovation?2
Ellipsis meets the reactive what-x construction in English2
Joseph E. Emonds, The syntax and morphology of English verbs: Patterns that matter (Studies in Generative Grammar 147). Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2022. Pp. xiii + 266. ISBN 9783110738711.1
The syntax of Expletive Negation in English: the case of not -ACC- ing constructions1
Carolina P. Amador-Moreno, Dagmar Haumann and Arne Peters (eds.), Digitally-assisted historical English linguistics. New York: Routledge, 2024. Pp. xi + 313. ISBN 9781032418995.1
Peter Trudgill, The long journey of English: A geographical history of the language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 191. ISBN 9781108949576.1
Mirjam Fried and Kiki Nikiforidou (eds.), The Cambridge handbook of Construction Grammar (Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics). Cambridge: Ca1
Daniela Pettersson-Traba, The development of the concept of SMELL in American English: A usage-based view of near-synonymy (Applications of Cognitive Linguistics 51). Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter Mou1
Actually : function, position and prosody1
Lisa Jansen, English rock and pop performances: A sociolinguistic investigation of British and American language perceptions and attitudes (IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society 51). Amster1
Merja Kytö and Lucia Siebers (eds.), Earlier North American Englishes (Varieties of English Around the World G66). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2022. Pp. viii + 261. ISBN 1
Theresa Neumaier, Conversation in World Englishes: Turn-taking and cultural variation in Southeast Asian and Caribbean English (Studies in English Language). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021
Tony Crowley, Liverpool: A memoir of words. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2023. Pp. 224. ISBN 9781837644384.1
Comparing comparatives: appropriateness ratings of synthetic, analytic and double comparatives in American and British English1
Nikolay Slavkov, Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer and Nadja Kerschhofer-Puhalo (eds.), The changing face of the ‘native speaker’: Perspectives from multilingualism and globalization (Trends in Applied Linguistics 1
Maryann Overstreet and George Yule, General extenders: The forms and functions of a new linguistic category. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. x + 238. ISBN 9781108837231.1
The long history of shortening: a diachronic analysis of abbreviation practices from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century1
A quantitative model of verb–object order in Middle English with special reference to the prose–poetry distinction1
Dagmar Haumann and Kristin Killie, The development of speaker-oriented adverbs in English: Reanalysis, ellipsis, lexicalization or analogy? (Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today 287). Amsterdam and 1
Olga Timofeeva, Sociolinguistic variation in Old English: Records of communities and people (Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics 13). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2022. Pp. xvii + 21
Disgusting, obscene and aggravating language: speech descriptors and the sociopragmatic evaluation of speech in theOld Bailey Corpus1
Kirsten Middeke, The Old English case system: Case and argument structure constructions (Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics 12). Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2021. Pp. xvi + 421. ISBN 9789004435261
The special position of fragments and imperatives in polished prose: data from The Economist editorials1
Patrick Honeybone and Warren Maguire (eds.), Dialect writing and the North of England. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. Pp. xii + 356. ISBN 9781474442565.1
Ilse Depraetere, Bert Cappelle, Martin Hilpert, Ludovic De Cuypere, Mathieu Dehouck, Pascal Denis, Susanne Flach, Natalia Grabar, Cyril Grandin, Thierry Hamon, Clemens Hufeld, Benoît Leclerq and Hans-1
ELL volume 26 issue 4 Cover and Front matter1
Emma Moore, Socio-syntax: Exploring the social life of grammar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 256. ISBN 9781108843973.1
Hedged performatives in spoken American English: recent change and variation in their use1
A constructionalist account of why-fragments and Mad Magazine sentences: the ‘Sceptical Small’ construction1
‘When intuitions (don't) fail’: combining syntax and sociolinguistics in the analysis of Scots1
Tony Berber Sardinha and Shannon Fitzsimmons-Doolan, Lexical multidimensional analysis: Identifying discourses and ideologies (Elements in Corpus Linguistics). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 21
ELL volume 26 issue 4 Cover and Back matter1
Anna Mauranen and Svetlana Vetchinnikova (eds.), Language change: The impact of English as a lingua franca. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. ix + 363. ISBN 9781108729819.1
A collostructional approach to the concealed passive construction in English1
Irina T. Pandarova, Revisiting sentence adverbials and relevance (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 334). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2021. Pp. ix + 254. ISBN 9789027213730.1
Martin Schweinberger and Patricia Ronan (eds.), Socio-pragmatic variation in Ireland: Using pragmatic variation to construct social identities (Trends in Linguistics Studies and Monographs 378). Berli1
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