RESEARCH
(for publications, see separate Publications page)

AREAS OF INTEREST
  • Expressions of future in English
  • Corpus linguistics
  • Corpora and language learning
  • Learner corpora
  • Academic writing for L2 learners
  • Online resources for teaching and research
Expressions of future in English
I have performed and published corpus-based studies on the use of will, 'll, shall, going to and gonna in a variety of corpora, examining variation with type of text, type of speaker, time and other linguistic and non-linguistic factors. I've also been involved in collaborative research on the semantic properties of going to.

Corpus Linguistics
In addition to work on theoretical aspects of corpus compilation and use, I have worked on a range of corpus compilation and development projects, such as the Uppsala Student English corpus, Uppsala Press Corpus, British National Corpus, BNC Baby, SACODEYL project.
  • Tools and methods, theory and practice
  • Corpus compilation
  • Corpus analysis
  • Corpus annotation and mark-up
  • Corpus use outside linguistics

Corpora and language learning
  • SACODEYL project
  • CorpusCALL Special Interest Group
  
Learner Corpora
Compiling and exploring learner corpora

Academic writing for L2 learners
  • METAFAR project
  • TAD project

Online resources for teaching, learning and research
  • OpenSpires
  • Great Writers Inspire
  • Intute: Arts and Humanities