Ian MacKenzie
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ian MacKenzie is involved.
Articles
2012 Chapter 1. Fair play to them: Proficiency in English and types of borrowing The Anglicization of European Lexis, Furiassi, Cristiano, Virginia Pulcini and Félix Rodríguez González (eds.), pp. 27–42 | Article
Proficiency in English is increasing across Europe. Because bilingual speech often contains ephemeral, speaker-specific nonce borrowings, code-switches, and all the other manifestations of crosslinguistic interaction, this will to a minor extent Anglicize much everyday language use. But increasing… read more
2001 Poetry and formulaic language Linguistic Approaches to Poetry, Michaux, Christine and Marc Dominicy (eds.), pp. 75–86 | Article
Corpora show that people are less original in using language than is generally believed. We routinely employ an immense repertoire of semi-preconstructed phrases, though we also adapt them: creative extensions and adaptations of institutionalized locutions sometimes occur more frequently than the… read more