Neil Millar
List of John Benjamins publications in which Neil Millar is involved.
Articles
2015 Adjectives, communities, and taxonomies of evaluative meaning Functions of Language 22:3, pp. 297–331 | Article
From a corpus consisting of free text comments submitted to the website RateMyProfessors.com, adjectives describing people have been identified and clustered using Principal Components Analysis. This follows the Meaning Extraction method used by Chung & Pennebaker (2007). The outcome is a set of… read more
2009 Modal verbs in TIME: Frequency changes 1923–2006 International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 14:2, pp. 191–220 | Article
Between the 1960’s and 1990’s the frequency of modal verbs in the Brown family of corpora fell substantially, a decline which Leech (2003: 96) suggests is indicative of a more “general and long lasting trend”. Taking Leech’s study as a starting point, this paper investigates twentieth century… read more