Ute Römer-Barron

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List of John Benjamins publications in which Ute Römer-Barron is involved.

Book series

General Editor: Ute Römer-Barron

ISSN 3117-7646 | E‑ISSN 3117‑7654

Edited by Fatih Bayram and Tihana Kraš

ISSN 0928-1533

General Editor: Ute Römer-Barron

ISSN 1388-0373

Journals

Edited by Lieselotte Brems, Lobke Ghesquière and Brecht de Groote

ISSN 1874-8767 | E‑ISSN 1874‑8775

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Edited by Michaela Mahlberg

ISSN 1384-6655 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9811

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Advances in Corpus-based Research on Academic Writing: Effects of discipline, register, and writer expertise

Edited by Ute Römer-Barron, Viviana Cortes and Eric Friginal

This volume showcases some of the latest research on academic writing by leading and up-and-coming corpus linguists. The studies included in the volume are based on a wide range of corpora spanning first and second language academic writing at different levels of writing expertise, containing texts… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 95] 2020. vi, 358 pp.

Patterns, Meaningful Units and Specialized Discourses

Edited by Ute Römer-Barron and Rainer Schulze

This collection of papers explores some facets in the areas of Corpus Linguistics and Phraseology which have gone unnoticed so far. With the aid of a range of different corpora and new-generation software tools, the authors tackle specialized domains and discourse in specialized settings, utilizing… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 22] 2010. v, 124 pp.

Exploring the Lexis–Grammar Interface

Edited by Ute Römer-Barron and Rainer Schulze

This volume showcases studies that recognize and provide evidence for the inseparability of lexis and grammar. The contributors explore in what ways these two areas, often treated separately in linguistic theory and description, form an organic whole. The papers in Section I (Setting the Scene)… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 35] 2009. vi, 321 pp.

Patterns, meaningful units and specialized discourses

Edited by Ute Römer-Barron and Rainer Schulze

Special issue of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 13:3 (2008) 144 pp.

Progressives, Patterns, Pedagogy: A corpus-driven approach to English progressive forms, functions, contexts and didactics

Ute Römer-Barron

This book presents a large-scale corpus-driven study of progressives in 'real' English and 'school' English, combining an analysis of general linguistic interest with a pedagogically motivated one. A systematic comparative analysis of more than 10,000 progressive forms taken from the largest… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 18] 2005. xiv + 328 pp.

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Römer-Barron, Ute 2026 Postface. Usage-based language acquisition research: Where to next? Usage-based Perspectives on Language and Language Acquisition: In honour of Heike Behrens, Madlener-Charpentier, Karin, Marjolijn H. Verspoor, Mirjam Weder and Annelies Häcki Buhofer (eds.), pp. 331–339 | Chapter

Römer-Barron, Ute 2024 How do constructions with modal verbs develop in second language learners of English? Corpus Linguistics and Second Language Studies, Liu, Dilin, Xiaofei Lu and Isaiah WonHo Yoo (eds.), pp. 198–226 | Article

The study reported on in this paper uses data from a large, pseudolongitudinal corpus of second language (L2) learner writing to investigate how L2 knowledge of verb-argument constructions (VACs) develops from low-beginner to upper-intermediate proficiency levels. The focus is on learners from… read more

Römer-Barron, Ute, Viviana Cortes and Eric Friginal 2020 Introduction: Advances in corpus-based research on academic writing Advances in Corpus-based Research on Academic Writing: Effects of discipline, register, and writer expertise, Römer-Barron, Ute, Viviana Cortes and Eric Friginal (eds.), pp. 1–6 | Chapter

Yilmaz, Selahattin and Ute Römer-Barron 2020 A corpus-based exploration of constructions in written academic English as a lingua franca Advances in Corpus-based Research on Academic Writing: Effects of discipline, register, and writer expertise, Römer-Barron, Ute, Viviana Cortes and Eric Friginal (eds.), pp. 59–88 | Chapter

With English being the global language of research, academic English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) research has gained wide recognition. While early research showcased the dynamic nature of spoken academic ELF, written academic ELF, a more recent focus of research, remains to be under-studied.… read more

Römer-Barron, Ute 2019 A corpus perspective on the development of verb constructions in second language learners Constructions in Applied Linguistics, Hunston, Susan and Florent Perek (eds.), pp. 268–290 | Article

This article reports initial findings from a study that uses written data from second language (L2) learners of English at different proficiency levels (CEFR A1 to C1) in a large-scale investigation of verb-argument construction (VAC) emergence. The findings provide insights into first VACs in L2… read more

Römer-Barron, Ute and Jamie Garner 2019 The development of verb constructions in spoken learner English: Tracing effects of usage and proficiency Corpus-based Approaches to Spoken L2 Production: Evidence from the Trinity Lancaster Corpus, Brezina, Vaclav, Dana Gablasova and Tony McEnery (eds.), pp. 207–230 | Article

Based on datasets of L1 Italian and Spanish learner language culled from the Trinity Lancaster Corpus Sample, this paper investigates how verb-argument constructions (VACs) develop in the spoken English of L2 learners across proficiency levels. In addition to proficiency and L1 effects, we focus… read more

O'Donnell, Matthew Brook, Ute Römer-Barron and Nick C. Ellis 2015 The development of formulaic sequences in first and second language writing: Investigating effects of frequency, association, and native norm Current Issues in Phraseology, Hoffmann, Sebastian, Bettina Fischer-Starcke and Andrea Sand (eds.), pp. 83–108 | Article

Formulaic sequences are recognised as having important roles in language acquisition, processing, fluency, idiomaticity, and instruction. But there is little agreement over their definition and measurement, or on methods of corpus comparison. We argue that replicable research must be grounded upon… read more

Römer-Barron, Ute, Matthew Brook O'Donnell and Nick C. Ellis 2015 Chapter 2. Using COBUILD grammar patterns for a large-scale analysis of verb-argument constructions: Exploring corpus data and speaker knowledge Corpora, Grammar and Discourse: In honour of Susan Hunston, Groom, Nicholas, Maggie Charles and Suganthi John (eds.), pp. 43–72 | Article

This paper takes patterns identified in COBUILD Grammar Patterns 1: Verbs (Francis et al. 1996) as a starting point for the systematic, large-scale analysis of English verb-argument constructions (VACs), using both corpus/computational methods and psycholinguistic experiments. We work in an… read more

Ellis, Nick C., Matthew Brook O'Donnell and Ute Römer-Barron 2014 Second language verb-argument constructions are sensitive to form, function, frequency, contingency, and prototypicality Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 4:4, pp. 405–431 | Article

We used free association tasks to investigate second language (L2) verb-argument constructions (VACs) and the ways in which their access is sensitive to statistical patterns of usage (verb type-token frequency distribution, VAC-verb contingency, verb-VAC semantic prototypicality). 131 German, 131… read more

O'Donnell, Matthew Brook, Ute Römer-Barron and Nick C. Ellis 2013 The development of formulaic sequences in first and second language writing: Investigating effects of frequency, association, and native norm Current issues in phraseology, Hoffmann, Sebastian, Bettina Fischer-Starcke and Andrea Sand (eds.), pp. 83–108 | Article

Ädel, Annelie and Ute Römer-Barron 2012 Research on advanced student writing across disciplines and levels: Introducing the Michigan Corpus of Upper-level Student Papers International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 17:1, pp. 3–34 | Article

This paper introduces the Michigan Corpus of Upper-level Student Papers (MICUSP) as a new resource that will enable researchers and teachers of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) to investigate the written discourse of highly advanced student writers whose written assignments have been awarded the… read more

Römer-Barron, Ute 2010 Establishing the phraseological profile of a text type: The construction of meaning in academic book reviews English Text Construction 3:1, pp. 95–119 | Article

Starting from the observation that meaning does not primarily reside in individual words but in the phrase, this paper focuses on the examination of recurring phrases in language. It introduces a new analytical model that leads corpus researchers to a profile of the central phraseological items in… read more

Schulze, Rainer and Ute Römer-Barron 2010 Introduction: Patterns, meaningful units and specialized discourses Patterns, Meaningful Units and Specialized Discourses, Römer-Barron, Ute and Rainer Schulze (eds.), pp. 1–6 | Introduction

Römer-Barron, Ute 2009 The inseparability of lexis and grammar: Corpus linguistic perspectives Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Volume 7, Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco José (ed.), pp. 140–162 | Article

This paper focuses on the interface of lexis and grammar and provides corpus evidence for the inseparability of two areas that have traditionally been kept apart, both in language teaching and in linguistic analysis and description. The paper will first give an overview of a number of influential… read more

Römer-Barron, Ute 2009 Corpus research and practice: What help do teachers need and what can we offer? Corpora and Language Teaching, Aijmer, Karin (ed.), pp. 83–98 | Article

Despite the progress that has recently been made in the field of corpus linguistics and language teaching, it is not clear what impact corpora have actually had so far on English language teaching practice. Corpus researchers often claim that corpus linguistics can make a difference for language… read more

Schulze, Rainer and Ute Römer-Barron 2009 Introduction: Zooming in Exploring the Lexis–Grammar Interface, Römer-Barron, Ute and Rainer Schulze (eds.), pp. 1–11 | Article

Römer-Barron, Ute 2008 Identification impossible? A corpus approach to realisations of evaluative meaning in academic writing Evaluation in text types, Bednarek, Monika (ed.), pp. 115–130 | Article

Evaluation is a pervasive element in spoken and written language but its identification poses serious problems to linguistic researchers, especially when they are dealing with larger amounts of text which require the application of computer-assisted analytic techniques. This article explores ways… read more

Schulze, Rainer and Ute Römer-Barron 2008 Introduction: Patterns, meaningful units and specialized discourses Patterns, meaningful units and specialized discourses, Römer-Barron, Ute and Rainer Schulze (eds.), pp. 265–270 | Article

Nesselhauf, Nadja and Ute Römer-Barron 2007 Lexical-grammatical patterns in spoken English: The case of the progressive with future time reference International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 12:3, pp. 297–333 | Article

Based on a large set of data from one of the biggest available corpora of spoken British English (the 10-million word spoken component of the BNC), this article explores central lexical-grammatical aspects of progressive forms with future time reference. Among the phenomena investigated are verb… read more