Based on the analysis of a specially compiled corpus of internationally recognized English
as a foreign language (EFL) reading tests at different levels of proficiency, this volume …

The fields of language testing and second language acquisition (SLA) have regularly and
publicly discussed the benefits of co-operation (cf Hyltenstam and Pienemann, 1985; …

Empirical approaches based on qualitative or quantitative methods of corpus linguistics
have become a central paradigm within linguistics. The series takes account of this fact and …

Comme le rappelle le texte problématique du colloque, la notion de saillance n'a ses
entrées ni dans les dictionnaires de langue ni dans les dictionnaires linguistiques ni dans …

This study investigates whether L1 attrition effects on anaphora resolution decrease with L1
re-immersion. A group of 20 Italian-Swedish late bilinguals was tested once before and once …

This interpretive study aims to investigate the difficulties in English academic writing as
perceived by Saudi postgraduate students and their English supervisors in an English …

De nombreuses théories (théorie de l'accessibilité, du centrage), prohibent les séquences
référentielles où le nom propre (Np) est répété, pour des raisons qui sont rappelées dans la …

This thesis is a large-scale investigation of ditransitive constructions and their alternants in
English. Typically both constructions involve three participants: participant A transfers an …

State-of-the-art coreference resolution systems are mostly knowledge-based systems that
operate by relying on a set of hand-crafted coreference resolution heuristics. Recently …

I wish to express my deepest gratitude to my supervisors Rint Sybesma and Daniel Hole.
Without their support, this dissertation would not exist. Since, as a Chinese saying goes …