Chris Turner

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What can be done to ensure that applied linguistics gets a bigger share of the research grants pie?

My impression is that applied linguistics receives a very small percentage of both state-funded and industry-funded research grants. Given its potential for helping society (e.g. clinical...

12 December 2017 3,998 10 View

To what extent can the principles of demographic statistics be applied to corpus research?

I am trying to apply a number of statistical measures to my corpus research into some and any. The main measures I am applying are: 1) Measures such as T-score and MI score to produce reliable...

01 January 2016 1,366 2 View

Which broad areas of grammar or specific grammar points do you think are poorly described in grammar books?

I'm thinking of both pedagogical grammar books such as "English Grammar in Use" and more academic, descriptive grammars such as "The Longman Grammar of Written and Spoken English". I'm interested...

10 October 2015 5,294 8 View