The development of and factors influencing double object construction preference of the ditransitive verbs envy and forgive by Veronika Hlaváčková, Gabriela Brůhová

“…Using a corpus sample of American English (COHA), the data reveal a complex situation. …”
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Lexical Profile of Academic Written English Revisited: What Does it Take to Understand Scholarly Abstracts? by Nhu Le Quynh Nguy, Hung Tan Ha

“…The results showed that the vocabulary size of the most frequent 7,000 and 15,000 word families in the British National Corpus/Corpus of Contemporary American English (BNC/COCA) word list plus proper nouns, marginal words, transparent compounds, acronyms were needed to gain 95% and 98% coverage of the abstract corpus, respectively. …”
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Mapping Grammatical Relations of English Verbs by Putu Owen Purusa Arta, I Nyoman Sedeng, Putu Lirishati Soethama

“…The data of this study were taken from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) by inputting verbs those have been determined to the website http://www.english-corpora.org/coca/. …”
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Psychometric Properties of the Brazilian Portuguese Version of the Circumplex Scales of Interpersonal Problems (CSIP) by Vinícius Betzel Koehler, Michael J. Boudreaux, Rosana S. Tokumaru

“…The Circumplex Scales of Interpersonal Problems (CSIP) was developed in American English to assess maladaptive variants of the interpersonal circumplex. …”
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Corpus-Based Research of Simple Non-Inverted Pronominal Interrogative Constructions in English by Ye. N. Vorobyova

“…Based on the Corpus of Contemporary American English, the author established the frequency of pronominal interrogative structures with direct word order, analyzed their grammatical features, and defined the most popular genres, which appeared to be the discourse of television and cinema. …”
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An evaluation of three national high school English textbooks in Vietnam from a global Englishes language teaching perspective by Le, T

“…The findings revealed a strong dominance of British English norms (and to a much lesser extent, American English norms) and an overrepresentation of characters with light skin tones. …”

A genre and collocational analysis of consequence, result, and outcome by Supakorn Phoocharoensil

“…The data on which the study is based is derived from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). Of all the eight genres currently available in COCA, the three synonyms appear with the highest frequency in academic texts, whereas frequencies are lowest in informal genres, i.e. …”
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Aspects of the verbal system of Malaysian english and other englishes by Peter, Collins, Yao, Xinyue

“…For the verbal categories selected there is independent evidence of recent diachronic variation in British English (‘BrE’) and American English (‘AmE’). Apparent time insights into the degrees of advancement of ME and the OC Englishes with respect to these changes are derived via comparisons of speech versus writing frequencies, and comparisons with frequencies for the IC varieties. …”
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A review of sports analytics on Malaysia super league (MSL) by Razali, N., Mustapha, A., Soeed, K., Othman, M.

“…Sports analytics has played a crucial role for assisting in decision making for players drafting, trading, training, development, coaching and tactical system in association football (British English) or soccer (American English). Sports analytics in Malaysian football especially on main national football league, Malaysia Super League (MSL) has become a popular topic to be discussed among researchers in the past few years. …”

Functional-Semantic Features of Complex Sentences of Purpose in British and American Variants of English by N. V. Solovyeva, N. A. Skitina

“…The material for the study was taken from the Corpus of Contemporary American English and the British National Corpus. The novelty of the research lies in specifying the list of differential features of the categorical grammatical value of complex sentences of purpose. …”
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Detecting directional forces in the evolution of grammar: A case study of the English perfect with intransitives across EEBO, COHA, and Google Books by Shimpei Okuda, Michio Hosaka, Kazutoshi Sasahara

“…Here we examined directional forces in the evolution of the English perfect with intransitive by combining three large-scale data sources: Early English Books Online (EEBO), Corpus of Historical American English (COHA), and Google Books. We found that most intransitive verbs exhibited an apparent transition from be+PP to have+PP, most of which were classified as ‘selection’ by a deep neural network-based model. …”
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O metadiscurso visual do material interposto de um dicionário em Língua Inglesa by Lorena Américo Ribeiro Fechine, Antônio Luciano Pontes

“… Neste artigo, investigamos a função das cores e das imagens como elementos metadiscursivos no material interposto do IllustratedBasic Dictionary of American English (2010), pertencente à série Collins Cobuild. …”
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L’accent préfère-t-il le sens ? Les noms féminins en -ess en anglais britannique contemporain by Jérémy Castanier

“…Within a dynamic synchronic approach using in particular all 18 editions of the English Pronouncing Dictionary, this study examines the emergence since the mid-20th century of final stress in British English (but not in American English) on feminine nouns in -ess (authoress, shepherdess, actress, manageress, etc.), whereas this ending used to be perfectly stress-neutral. …”
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COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION AND INTERNATIONAL MORPHEMES by Olga I. Osetrova, Daria V. Khusainova

“…Globalization, active internalization and progress in technology have intensified the impact that American English has over national languages. The impact can be seen in borrowing a big amount of computer-mediated communication (CMC) lexis from the English language. …”
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Phrasal verbs with particle 'off' and their equivalents in Serbian language by Dančetović Nikola N.

“…English grammarians point out that the number of phrasal verbs has increased significantly since the mid-19th century, especially in mid-20th, mostly in American English. Many phrasal verbs can be replaced with another word with little change in meaning. …”
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Contributions toward Understanding the Acquisition of Eight Aspects of Vocabulary Knowledge by K. James Hartshorn, Aylin Surer

“… With the intent of adding to the literature leading toward a more complete theory of second language vocabulary acquisition, this study elicited accuracy data from 110 ESL learners ranging from novice high to advanced low on 64 words randomly selected in the 2K–3K range of Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) (32 verbs, 24 nouns, 8 adjectives) covering eight aspects of word knowledge. …”
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Phonotactics, prophylaxis, acquisitionism and change: *Rime-xxŋ and ash-tensing in the history of English by Patrick Honeybone

“…I argue that we need to investigate the emergence of such constraints in the history of languages and I show how this particular constraint, once innovated (which occurs through constraint scattering), can be understood to have inhibited the patterning of ash-tensing in certain varieties of American English (and also that it may now have been lost in some varieties). …”
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USE, MISUSE AND OVERUSE OF ‘ON THE OTHER HAND’: A CORPUS STUDY COMPARING ENGLISH OF NATIVE SPEAKERS AND LEARNERS by Assiye Burgucu Tazegül

“…The learner corpus used is composed of academicallyadvanced non-native students’ doctoral dissertations (applied and theoretical linguistics fields) and the study also compiled the control corpora, the first one is a corpus of academic essays written by professional native speakers and the second control corpus is The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). Students’ own writings are made comparisons between established writers’ papers in their field and COCA. …”
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A Semantic Analysis of Collect, Gather, Put Together, Assemble, Group, and Amass by Mohammad AlAmro

“…Taking into consideration that this probably is not something one can definitely determine unless a large corpus of English is used, the framework of the semantic description is refined through the use of the online corpus collection: Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). Many samples of each word have been collected as well as the collocations and contexts wherein they are found.…”
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Voices of coastal Georgia by Renwick, MEL, Olsen, RM

“…The Southern dialect of American English has been characterized with a number of distinctive vowel features. …”