Nicholas Smith

Publications

• Same time, across time: simultaneity clauses from Late Modern to Present-Day English
• Conversationalization and democratization in a radio chat show: a grammar-led investigation
• Variation and change in a specialized register
• From broadcast archive to language corpus: Designing and investigating a sociohistorical corpus from Desert Island Discs
• Categorizing syntactic constructions in a corpus*
• Verb structures in twentieth-century British English
• English style on the move: variation and change in stylistic norms in the twentieth century
• Beyond aspect:will be -ingandshall be -ing
• Change and constancy in linguistic change: How grammatical usage in written English evolved in the period 1931-1991
• Corpus Tools and Methods, Today and Tomorrow: Incorporating Linguists' Manual Annotations
• Change in Contemporary English
• Corpus Linguistics with BNCweb
• Desert Island Discs Corpus: Guest speaker classifications (1960s, 1980s, 2000s)
• Writing the vernacular: transcribing and tagging the Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English
• Categorizing syntactic constructions in a corpus
• Changes in the modals and semi-modals of strong obligation and epistemic necessity in recent british english
• Verb structures in twentieth-century British English
• Issues in Transcribing a Corpus of Children’s Hanwritten Projects
• Short term diachronic shifts in part-of-speech frequencies: A comparison of the tagged LOB and F-LOB corpora
• Addressing comparability and retrieval issues in conversation corpora: A case study on the spoken British National Corpora (1994 and 2014), using the past perfect