Editorial information for Volume 2

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Contents

Historical sociolinguistic approaches to derivational morphology: A study of speaker gender and nominal suffixes in Early Modern English

Chris C. Palmer

Kennesaw State University

The Old English causative verb hatan and its demise

Brian Lowrey

University of Picardie Jules Verne

Popularising scientific discourse for an academic audience: The case of Nobel lectures

Stefania Maci

University of Bergamo

Middle English preposition and adverb twix

Ewa Ciszek-Kiliszewska

Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań

A diachronic study of the prepositions among and amongst

Laura Esteban-Segura

University of Murcia

The Representation of Modality in Non-Standard English

Patrice Larroque

Paul Valery University Montpellier

A multitude of voices and worlds: Towards a new model of the medical case report

Magdalena Murawska

Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań

Inverted reporting verbs in the sentence-initial position in English: Focus on phrasal verbs

Masatoshi Konno

Tohoku University

Evaluative Meaning of Negative Expression: Asymmetry between readable and unreadable

Takashi Hamada

Keio University

The semantics and pragmatics of motion verbs in air traffic English and general English.

Gordana Dimković-Telebaković

University of Belgrade

Patterns of lexical collocation in sermonic texts

Alexandra Uzoaku Esimaje

Benson Idahosa University

Analogically-driven strong and weak verb transformations in the history of English: The role of synonyms

Mayuko Yoneda

Kyoto University

Style-shifting as a function of multiple factors: A corpus based study

Łukasz Stolarski

Jan Kochanowski University

The 1925 Scopes Trial as a Discursive Event: Does reference to the 1925 trial affect our view of teachers in the contemporary debate over evolution?

Shala Barczewska

Jan Kochanowski University