OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Sunken ships and screaming banshees: metaphor and evaluation in film reviews	15
Ethnic and gender variation in the use of Colloquial Singapore English discourse particles	11
OnThe London–Lund Corpus 2: design, challenges and innovations	11
The grammaticalization of evidentiality in English	8
Attention, identity and linguistic capital: inverted style-shifting in Anglo-Cornish dialect lexis	7
Beyond modal idioms and modal harmony: a corpus-based analysis of gradient idiomaticity inmod+advcollocations	7
En[dj]uring [ʧ]unes or ma[tj]ure [ʤ]ukes? Yod-coalescence and yod-dropping in theEighteenth-Century English Phonology Database	6
Recent change in modality in informal spoken British English: 1990s–2010s	6
Managing information flow through prosody init-clefts	5
Constituency and left-sharing in coordination	5
Lexical borrowing in the Middle English period: a multi-domain analysis of semantic outcomes	5
On the recent history of low vowels in English	4
Using theEighteenth-Century English Phonology Database(ECEP) as a teaching resource	4
Social meaning in archival interaction: a mixed-methods analysis of variation in rhoticity and past tense be in Oldham	3
New insights into English count and mass nouns – the Cognitive Grammar perspective	3
foot-fronting andfoot–strutsplitting: vowel variation in the East Midlands	3
Dialect levelling and Cockney diphthong shift reversal in South East England: the case of the Debden Estate	2
Middle English Open Syllable Lengthening (MEOSL) or Middle English Compensatory Lengthening (MECL)?	2
Lexical diffusion in the making: the lengthening of Middle English /a/ during the eighteenth century and across the diasystem of English	2
Special issue on studies in Late Modern English historical phonology using the Eighteenth-Century English Phonology Database (ECEP): introduction	2
Representations of phonological changes ingoatand /r/ in theCollection of Nineteenth-century Grammars(CNG)	2
English verbs can omit their objects when they describe routines	2
AJust SoStory: on the recent emergence of the purpose subordinatorjust so	2
‘Well, taakin about he da bring inta me yead wat I promised var ta tell ee about’: representations of south-western speech in nineteenth-century dialect writing	2
Hypercorrection in English: an intervarietal corpus-based study	2

Making meaning withbe able to: modality and actualisation	2
Category-free complement selection in causal adjunct phrases	2
Speech reflections in Late Modern English pauper letters from Dorset	2
Variable assimilation of English word-final /n/: electropalatographic evidence	2
Recent developments of the pragmatic markers kind of and sort of in spoken British English	2
Talking to peasants: language, place and class in British fiction 1800–1836	2
‘Practised among the common people’: ‘vulgar’ pronunciations in eighteenth-century pronouncing dictionaries	2
Yorkshire folk versus Yorkshire boors: evidence for sociological fractionation in nineteenth-century Yorkshire dialect writing	2
Double modals in contemporary British and Irish speech	2
From quick to quick-to-infinitival: on what is lexeme specific across paradigmatic and syntagmatic distributions	2
Is morphosyntactic agreement reflected in acoustic detail? Thesduration of English regular plural nouns	1
Metrical evidence for the evolution of English syntax	1
Special issue on verse structure and linguistic modelling: introductory notes	1
Phrasal verbs in Early Modern English spoken language: a colloquialization conspiracy?	1
Language change is wicked: semantic and social meaning of a polysemous adjective	1
Pronominally headed relative clauses in early English	1
Reflexive analytic causatives: a diachronic analysis of transitivity parameters	1
The origins ofowldin Scots	1
Speech, writing and boxsets: a messy linguistic change in English	1
25 years of English Language and Linguistics: a celebration and analysis	1
‘Ey, wait, wait, gully!’ Style, stance and the social meaning of attention signals in East London adolescent speech	1
Changes in progress in late Northumbrian: the extension of -s as genitive and plural marker	1
Lone pronoun tags in Early Modern English: ProTag constructions in the dramas of Jonson, Marlowe and Shakespeare	1
Special issue on spoken language in time and across time: introduction	1
The most stable it'severbeen: the preterit/present perfect alternation in spoken Ontario English	1
Hans-Jörg Schmid, The dynamics of the linguistic system: Usage, conventionalization, and entrenchment. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xxiii + 397. ISBN 9780198814771.	1
Disgusting, obscene and aggravating language: speech descriptors and the sociopragmatic evaluation of speech in theOld Bailey Corpus	1
The puzzling nuanced status of who free relative clauses in English: a follow-up to Patterson and Caponigro (2015)	1
Old Norse-derived lexis in multilingual accounts: a case study	1