Marcus Callies
List of John Benjamins publications in which Marcus Callies is involved.
Journal
ISSN 2215-1478 | E‑ISSN 2215‑1486
Metaphor Variation in Englishes around the World
Edited by Marcus Callies and Alexander Onysko
Special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 4:1 (2017) v, 169 pp.
Learner Corpora in Language Testing and Assessment
Edited by Marcus Callies and Sandra Götz
The aim of this volume is to highlight the benefits and potential of using learner corpora for the testing and assessment of L2 proficiency in both speaking and writing, reflecting the growing importance of learner corpora in applied linguistics and second language acquisition research. Identifying… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 70] 2015. vi, 220 pp.
Bi-Directionality in the Cognitive Sciences: Avenues, challenges, and limitations
Edited by Marcus Callies, Wolfram R. Keller and Astrid Lohöfer
Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary study of the human mind. As far as the exact relationship between the cognitive sciences and other fields is concerned, however, it appears that interdisciplinary exchange often remains unrealized, possibly because of the uni-directional application of… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 30] 2011. viii, 313 pp.
Information Highlighting in Advanced Learner English: The syntax–pragmatics interface in second language acquisition
Marcus Callies
This book presents the first detailed and comprehensive study of information highlighting in advanced learner language, echoing the increasing interest in questions of near-native competence in SLA research and contributing to the description of advanced interlanguages. It examines the production… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 186] 2009. xviii, 293 pp.
2026 Chapter 3. A diachronic register approach to complex prenominal modifiers Register and Discourse through the Lens of Corpus Linguistics, Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria, Dolores González-Álvarez and Esperanza Rama-Martínez (eds.), pp. 71–90 | Chapter
This chapter examines the emergence and recent diachronic development as well as the global spread of complex prenominal modifiers that involve (i) a comparison (e.g.,
better-than-average health) and (ii) an adjective plus infinitival clause (e.g.,
easy-to-understand… read more
2025 Adverb placement in L1 and L2 spoken production: The effect of linguistic and extralinguistic factors International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 30:1, pp. 79–105 | Article
Most existing research on adverb placement has focused exclusively on writing. This is unfortunate, given that the spoken mode offers limited opportunity for pre-planning and post-editing and may thus more readily reveal patterns of L1 transfer. Further, previous studies rarely consider the… read more
2025 In-service language teachers’ familiarity with corpora: Are they mere acquaintances or close friends? Are they mere acquaintances or close friends? Australian Review of Applied Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
Incorporating corpus literacy into teacher education is emphasized as a vital step for increasing the use of corpora in language instruction. Although several studies with promising results show its rising popularity in teacher education programs, being introduced to corpora remains uncommon… read more
2024 Challenges in the compilation, annotation, and analysis of learner corpus data Challenges in Corpus Linguistics: Rethinking corpus compilation and analysis, Kaunisto, Mark and Marco Schilk (eds.), pp. 55–67 | Chapter
This chapter highlights and discusses the special characteristics of learner corpus data and the challenges they may present for corpus compilation, annotation, and analysis. Because learner corpus and SLA researchers use their data to study L2 production and development, it is of utmost… read more
2024 Review of Siemund (2023): Multilingual Development. English in a Global Context English World-Wide 45:3, pp. 408–411 | Review
2020 Adverb placement in EFL academic writing: Going beyond syntactic transfer International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 25:2, pp. 156–185 | Article
The present study looks at adverb placement in expert writing and in first-language and second-language novice spoken and written production. The extent to which first-language (L1) transfer is still present in advanced learners’ written production is also investigated. The study uses data from… read more
2019 Integrating corpus literacy into language teacher education: The case of learner corpora Learner Corpora and Language Teaching, Götz, Sandra and Joybrato Mukherjee (eds.), pp. 245–264 | Chapter
Despite the increasing popularization and availability of corpus tools and resources, the practice of English language teaching still seems to be only marginally affected by the corpus-linguistic turn, because comparatively few teachers were trained in corpus linguistics and use corpora or corpus… read more
2018 Towards a process-oriented approach to comparing EFL and ESL varieties: A corpus-study of lexical innovations Rethinking Linguistic Creativity in Non-native Englishes, Deshors, Sandra C., Sandra Götz and Samantha Laporte (eds.), pp. 99–120 | Article
This paper adopts a process-oriented approach to comparing EFL and ESL varieties and examines to what extent they are driven by general cognitive processes of language acquisition and production. A comparative corpus-study of lexical innovations in derivational morphology brings to light two… read more
2018 Patterns of direct transitivization and differences between British and American English Changing Structures: Studies in constructions and complementation, Kaunisto, Mark, Mikko Höglund and Paul Rickman (eds.), pp. 151–167 | Chapter
Rohdenburg (2009) found that prepositions are increasingly omitted in several types of verbs, marking a shift in complementation from an intransitive pattern with a prepositional object to a transitive pattern featuring a direct object noun phrase. In particular, the decrease of prepositional… read more
2017 ‘Idioms in the making’ and variation in conceptual metaphor Metaphor Variation in Englishes around the World, Callies, Marcus and Alexander Onysko (eds.), pp. 63–81 | Article
This paper discusses the culture-specificity of figurative language use in varieties of English. Idioms as a special type of figurative language are understood as being conceptually motivated by underlying metaphorical mappings, also reflecting the nexus of language and culture. On the basis of… read more
2017 Metaphor variation in Englishes around the world: Introduction to the special issue Metaphor Variation in Englishes around the World, Callies, Marcus and Alexander Onysko (eds.), pp. 1–6 | Introduction
2016 Towards a process-oriented approach to comparing EFL and ESL varieties: A corpus-study of lexical innovations Linguistic Innovations: Rethinking linguistic creativity in non-native Englishes, Deshors, Sandra C., Sandra Götz and Samantha Laporte (eds.), pp. 229–251 | Article
This paper adopts a process-oriented approach to comparing EFL and ESL varieties and examines to what extent they are driven by general cognitive processes of language acquisition and production. A comparative corpus-study of lexical innovations in derivational morphology brings to light two… read more
2015 Effects of cross-linguistic influence in word formation: A comparative learner-corpus study of advanced interlanguage production Transfer Effects in Multilingual Language Development, Peukert, Hagen (ed.), pp. 129–146 | Article
In L2 acquisition, knowledge of derivational morphology and the combinatory properties of affixes and bases in the L2 has a positive effect on learners’ receptive and productive vocabulary. This chapter presents a learner-corpus study of affixation in the writing of EFL learners of diverse L1… read more
2015 An interview with Yukio Tono International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 1:1, pp. 160–171 | Article
2015 Learner corpora in language testing and assessment: Prospects and challenges Learner Corpora in Language Testing and Assessment, Callies, Marcus and Sandra Götz (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Article
2013 Agentivity as a determinant of lexico-grammatical variation in L2 academic writing New Frontiers in Learner Corpus Research, Hasko, Victoria (ed.), pp. 357–390 | Article
This paper examines novice writers’ strategies in the (non-)representation of authorship in academic writing drawing on data from the Corpus of Academic Learner English and a native-speaker control corpus. The analysis focuses on the quantitative and qualitative use of pronouns, subject… read more
2013 The Corpus of Academic Learner English (CALE): A new resource for the assessment of writing proficiency in the academic register Writing Assessment in Higher Education, Weltens, Bert, Jos Hornikx, Wander Lowie, Petra Poelmans and Rebecca L. Present-Thomas (eds.), pp. 126–132 | Article
Learner corpora present an option to inform, supplement and advance the way language proficiency is operationalized and assessed, and may also be used in data-driven approaches to the assessment of writing proficiency that are largely independent of human rating. The aim of this contribution is… read more
2013 Writing assessment in higher education: Making the framework work Writing Assessment in Higher Education, Weltens, Bert, Jos Hornikx, Wander Lowie, Petra Poelmans and Rebecca L. Present-Thomas (eds.), pp. 1–15 | Article
The importance of appropriate assessment methods for academic writing skills in higher education has received increasing attention in SLA research in recent years. Despite this, there is still relatively little understanding of how academic writing skills develop at the most advanced levels of… read more
2012 Review of Meunier, De Cock, Gilquin & Paquot (): A Taste for Corpora. In honour of Sylviane Granger Contrastive Linguistics and other Approaches to Language Comparison, Hüning, Matthias and Barbara Schlücker (eds.), pp. 107–111 | Review
2012 Chapter 3. Investigating gender variation of English loanwords in German The Anglicization of European Lexis, Furiassi, Cristiano, Virginia Pulcini and Félix Rodríguez González (eds.), pp. 65–89 | Article
This article examines variation in gender assignment to English loanwords – a phenomenon that has rarely been studied on a large empirical basis to date. We report on a multi-method study of gender assignment to Anglicisms as evidenced by large newspaper corpora and experimental data elicited from… read more
2011 Widening the goalposts of cognitive metaphor research Bi-Directionality in the Cognitive Sciences: Avenues, challenges, and limitations, Callies, Marcus, Wolfram R. Keller and Astrid Lohöfer (eds.), pp. 57–82 | Article
This chapter discusses patterns of use and variation in selected sports-related idiomatic expressions based on conceptual metaphors in five national varieties of English. Previous studies have predominantly focused on the pervasiveness of sports metaphors and their linguistic realization in… read more
2011 Introduction. Bi-directionality: Avenues, challenges, and limitations Bi-Directionality in the Cognitive Sciences: Avenues, challenges, and limitations, Callies, Marcus, Wolfram R. Keller and Astrid Lohöfer (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Article