Month: March 2017
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Published international research low by Japanese
Compared to the world growth in publishing at eighty-percent Japan is falling behind at just 14%. Figures given this morning showed exchange to America has fallen from the peak of over 47,000 students to under 19,000. Furthermore, money put into research has dropped dramatically. If Japan is to compete academically it will need to increase…
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A glossary of corpus types
There are many types of corpus depending on their use. Below is a list some of the main types. diachronic – a corpus which looks at changes across a timeframe. learner – a corpus of L2 learner writing of speech. monitor – a type of diachronic corpus which may continue to grow with new texts added…
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Dealing with long difficult to understand sentences
I have talked about the seven sentence patterns here. Those are all simple sentences. A simple sentence contains a single verb, that is, one clause. Complex sentences contain more than one verb, or two or more clauses. An SVO sentence theoretically can have three clauses, having one each for the subject, verb and object. It…
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What is morphosyntax?
Morphosyntax is another word for grammar. Grammar can be divided into morphology and syntax. Morphology is the study of words and their rules of formation. And syntax is the study of sentences and their rules of formation. Essentially, morphology and syntax are studies of the same thing – formation rules of a language – but at differing “levels”.…
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Philip Roth’s advice to (academic) writers
“The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.” (1979)
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Should it have been called ‘Brexit’?
As someone who works with words and like words I am always scrutinising it wherever I look. So I was curious as to why the referendum in the United Kingdom for whether to stay in the European Union or not was christened as Brexit, a portmanteau for ‘British Exit’ even before the vote had gone…
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