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Flipping the English grammar classroom: a pedagogical experiment for undergraduate students
(2022)Grammar is a key component of any language teaching curriculum, whether it ascribes to structural or to communicative approaches (Ur 2012). Although the attention devoted to grammar has decreased in the latter models ‒mainly ... -
Spelling Variation across Time and Space: A Study on Colour-, Theatre- and Licence-type Words.
(UMA Editorial, 2024)La presente tesis doctoral propone un estudio diacrónico y sincrónico-diatópico de la variación ortográfica de voces inglesas como colour/color, theatre/theater y licence/license. La existencia de dos variantes estándar ... -
Suffixes in Competition: On the Use of -our and -or in Early Modern English
Calle Martín, Javier; Pacheco-Franco, Marta; Calle-Martín, Javier
(Servicio de publicaciones, Universidad de Murcia, 2020)
This paper presents a corpus-driven analysis of the linguistic competition between the suffixes -our/-or in Early Modern English. It is conceived as a state of the art to provide an explanation of the development and ... -
The Morphology-Orthography Interface: A Needful Study
(2022)The affix -ful in words like needful and hopeful originates in the Germanic adjective full, meaning “filled to capacity” (OED, s.v. full, adj.), and has cognates in most languages of its family, both as a free-standing ... -
‘The night before beg'd ye queens's pardon and his brother's’: the apostrophe in the history of English
Calle-Martín, Javier; Pacheco-Franco, Marta (Cambridge University Press, 2023-11-24)
The apostrophe was introduced into the English orthographic system by the mid sixteenth century as a printer's mark especially designed ‘for the eye rather than for the ear’ (Sklar 1976: 175; Little 1986: 15). Whereas the ... -
‘What’s done can’t be undone’: Verbal Contractions in Modern English.
The habit of contracting words originates in the intrinsic tendency of languages to assimilate the pronunciation of two neighbouring sounds. In Present-day English, this phenomenon is most plainly observed in the so-called ... -
"Write as we speake": on the question of spelling reform today
(2022)English has been characterised by the variability of its spelling throughout history, since it was only standardised by the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Other than its history of unstability, the resulting ...