English academic writing has some specific characteristics that have been broadly defined
by researchers. Nevertheless, English is undergoing constant modification as a result of …

Structural simplicity/complexity is an important variable with which New Englishes and
native varieties are identified and conceptualised, but predicting such variation in complexity …

This study assessed the effect of adjectives and noun premodifiers on L2 noun phrase
comprehension and error types among English Language Learners. We also examined the …

The Uniform Information Density (UID) hypothesis proposes that speakers communicate by
transmitting information close to a constant rate. When choosing between two syntactic …

Complex noun phrases (CNPs) are a major vehicle of academic written discourse. However,
despite posing significant challenges to English language learners (ELLs), they are rarely …

This paper focuses on a functionalist analysis of the patterns followed when translating
specific texts from English into Spanish. The original texts are written in English and …

Nominal compounds are a structure commonly used in scientific texts. Despite their
commonality, very little is known about how they are distributed in scientific articles. Based …

This dissertation gives an account of the structure of the noun phrase (NP) in Nigerian
English against the background of the structural simplification hypothesis (Gorlach, 1998) …

Complex noun phrases (CNP) are a major vehicle of academic written discourse (Halliday,
1988; 2004). However, in spite of the view that they pose significant challenges to English …

One of the main challenges posed in front of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) teachers in
developing syllabi at higher education level is the choice of vocabulary to be taught. This …