The Present Perfect and Definite Temporal Adverbials: Reference Grammars and Corpus Evidence by Valentin Werner

“…I propose that the categorizations both as aspect and as tense as presented in these grammars have their inherent weaknesses and are particularly deficient when data from varieties other than British or American English is included. To test this assumption, I will analyze PP occurrences extracted from the International Corpus of English (ICE) appearing in contexts that have traditionally been considered ungrammatical or at least odd. …”
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Freudian Slip? The Changing Cultural Fortunes of Psychoanalytic Concepts by Nick Haslam, Lotus Ye

“…The frequency of the English terms was further explored from 2008 to 2017 using the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). The English terms rose steeply from the 1940s and declined steeply from the early 1990s. …”
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China’s Greater Bay Area Plan and Hong Kong: How Phraseologies Represent Different Voices in the Media by Zhide Hou

“…This study applies phraseologies to the comparative examination of China’s Greater Bay Area plan between Chinese and Anglo-American English-language press. Findings show that the Chinese texts are concerned in promoting cross-border Greater Bay Area integrated development allied with positive references to the role of Hong Kong, whereas the Anglo-American texts construct the Greater Bay Area plan as a political project and place emphasis on the negative impact on Hong Kong. …”
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Lexical Demands of Academic Written English: From Students’ Assignments to Scholarly Publications by Nhu Huynh Le, Hung Tan Ha

“…By employing the British National Corpus/ Corpus of Contemporary American English (BNC/COCA) word list and the Academic Word List (AWL), the present study analyzed data from the British Academic Written English (BAWE) corpus, which contained 2,761 student assignments, and the Public Library of Science One (PLOS ONE) corpus which included 4,000 scholarly articles. …”
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Representations of Intercourse in American Literature by Kim Ebensgaard Jensen

“…The analysis presented here is quantitative and falls under the rubric of corpus stylistics, and it is based on data from the FICTION component of the Corpus of Historical American English. The analysis measures the preference of male or female passive participants in propositional scenarios denoted by transitive fuck, thus allowing for the identification of large-scale patterns in sexual objectification of men or women in American literature. …”
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ARM AND LEG IDIOMS IN THE BNC AND COCA CORPORA: VIEWS ON THE CULTURAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN BRITISH AND AMERICAN SOCIETY by Nevena Tanasić

“…The study was conducted on the basis of the idioms that have the same body part, namely arm and/or leg, and those idioms were then compared in two corpora – the BNC (British National Corpus) and COCA (Corpus of Contemporary American English).…”
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Stratégies d’accommodation dans l’émission de débat politique Question Time (BBC1) : le cas de l’interro-négative by Pauline Levillain

“…After analysing the accommodation strategies put in place in a context of natural conversation in American English (Levillain 2017b), this study goes further into the accommodation strategies related to the specificity of a TV debate corpus.…”
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Voice, speech and gender: by Erwan Pépiot

“…The present study is an acoustic analysis of dissyllabic words or pseudo-words produced by Northeastern American English speakers and Parisian French speakers. …”
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“Dude” and “Dudette”, “Bro” and “Sis”: A Diachronic Study of Four Address Terms in the TV Corpus by Marie Flesch

“…They also show that familiarizers are more frequent in American English than in British and Canadian English, and that their frequency in the TV Corpus is genre-dependent, with animated series and reality television shows being more conducive to their use.…”
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Was/were Variation in the Middle Rocky Mountains by Antieau, Lamont D.

“…Although was/were variation is one of the most widely studied vernacular features in English (Adger and Smith 2005: 155), little attention has been paid to its presence in western varieties of American English, despite the insight such an investigation might provide to both the linguistic phenomenon and to regional varieties that have been generally overlooked in the sociolinguistic literature. …”
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A formant analysis of common vowels in Singapore English by Lim, Shiyun

“…Accent modelling in ASR for Inner Circle English varieties such as American English and British English have been largely successful due to a large repository of annotated data and years of research. …”
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English collocations extracted from a corpus of university learners and its contribution to a language teaching pedagogy=Colocações em inglês extraídas de um corpus de aprendizes u... by Adriane Orenha-Ottaiano

“…With the purpose of motivating and involving students in classroom research, it was also introduced The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), created by Mark Davies. By doing so, students could compare their collocational choices with the patterns found in the online corpus, extract more collocational patterns and, consequently, be aware of the potential of corpora for the foreign learning process, specifically for raising language awareness, with focus on prefabricated chunks.…”
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A Collocation Analysis of ‘energy’ in Brown Family Corpus by Prihantoro

“…I here argue that Corpus Linguistic (CL) investigations can show evidence that renewable energy has become increasingly important in the last 20 years as shown in the Brown Family corpus, a linguistic database of both British and American English whose diachronic data span from 1930s to 2000s. …”
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Perceived Challenges to Anglophone Publication at Three Universities in Chile by Marna Broekhoff

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Greece, the Netherlands and (the) Ukraine: A Corpus-Based Study of Definite Article Use with Country Names by Heiko Motschenbacher

“…Against this backdrop, the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) is used to explore which (groups of) country names occur more or less frequently with a definite article. …”
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What-clefts with adjectives in English: A corpus-based analysis by Jarosław Wiliński

“… This paper aims to investigate the what-cleft construction with adjectives and establish its structural, semantic, and distributional features by adopting frame semantics and usage-based construction grammar, exploiting the data from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), and applying quantitative corpus-based methodology. …”
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Making Suggestions while Collaborating in L1 English: Common Structures and Strategies by Anne Edstrom

“…This article explores the syntactic structures, pragmatic strategies, and redressive actions used by native speakers of American English when making suggestions. The data indicate that participants made frequent use of modals and did not use the more formulaic strategies included in some lists and taxonomies (Koike 1994; Martínez-Flor 2005) …”
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Terrific-looking creatures and terrific, funny guys: On the historical development of English terrific by Paloma Núñez Pertejo

“…The current paper employs a corpus methodology to trace the history of terrific, using three synchronic and diachronic corpora representing the two supranational varieties of the language, namely British English and American English. The sense development of the adjective is examined in light of parameters such as syntactic function (attributive vs. predicative use), principal collocations, and dialectal variation (British vs. …”
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A Corpus Based Study on English Synonyms: Babble, Blather, Chatter, Gibber, Jabber and Prattle by Mohammad AlAmro

“…This framework is refined through the use of the online corpus collection: Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). Many sample of each word have been collected and the collocations and contexts wherein they were found are examined in order to ascertain different shades of meaning.…”
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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 Tazegul

“…The learner corpus used is composed of academically-advanced 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). The results revealed that the overall frequency of  ‘on the other hand’ used by the Turkish doctoral students were greater than that used by the professional writers. …”
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