New perspectives

Competing future constructions and the Complexity Principle: A contrastive outlook9

Olaf Mikkelsen

Stefan Hartmann

Diachronic learner corpus research: Examining learner language through the lens of time41

Gaëtanelle Gilquin

Rhoticity in Southern New Zealand English: An acoustic analysis of the QuakeBox database69

Marco Schilk

Lena Pickert

Revisiting old debates

“I’m putting some salt in my sandwich”: The use of the progressive in EFL textbook conversation93

Elen Le Foll

Determinants of exaptation in Verb-Object predicates in the transition from Late Middle English to Early Modern English133

Javier Pérez-Guerra

Recent changes in spoken British English in verbal and nominal constructions173

Gerold Schneider

“Oh yeah, one more thing: It’s gonna be huge.”: On the use of oh yeah in journalistic writing197

Samuel Bourgois

Retrieving Twitter argumentation with corpus queries and discourse analysis229

Nathan Dykes

Philipp Heinrich

Stephanie Evert

MuPDAR for corpus-based learner and variety studies: Two (more) suggestions for improvement257

Stefan Th. Gries

A data-driven approach to finding significant changes in language use through time series analysis285

Andrew Kehoe

Matt Gee

Antoinette Renouf

Index319