Then and now: A reconsideration of the first corpus of scientific English

The subtitle of Huddleston (1971) reads A syntactic study based on an analysis of scientific texts; this volume thus represents the first carefully designed and substantial corpus of scientific English. In this paper I re-examine a selection of his findings based on the science and engineering half...

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Main Author: John M. Swales
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos 2004-10-01
Series:Ibérica
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Online Access:http://www.aelfe.org/documents/02-RA-8-Swales.pdf