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This volume is conceived as a collection of twelve groundbreaking articles by leading experts and early-career scholars in the field of English linguistics to pay tribute to the academic career of Professor Teresa Fanego[2] on the occasion of her retirement. David Denison in ' I That i -clauses as complements of verbs or nouns' (pp. 61-84) provides a study of the incipient change "shell/signalling noun + I that i -clause" ( I it highlighted the fact that ... i ) > "verb + I that i -clause" ( I it highlighted that ... i ) in recent American English (1900s-2000s), given that by 1900 the "V + I that i -clause" is to a certain extent entrenched in that variety. Some of the conclusions he reaches relate to the tentative observation that I since i sometimes debunks temporal I when i in learner's English and that ENL and ESL tend to cluster together when I while i -clauses are analayzed, while ENL and EFL tend to group together in respect to I since i -clauses. Her research interests include English historical syntax, corpus linguistics, Shakespeare's grammar, grammaticalization theory and Construction Grammar as applied to the development of English and, more recently, the development of English legal discourse. [Extracted from the article]

As stated by Professor Brinton, most publications dealing with the field of English historical linguistics are focused on "linguistic levels of change - phonological change, morphological change, syntactic change, and semantic change" (p. 1) while those dealing with the history of English are mainly "organized chronologically" (p. 1), with chapters devoted to specific periods (i.e. Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and Late Modern English). Chapter 6, "Approaches to Grammaticalization and Lexicalization" (pp. 131-157) by Lieselotte Brems (Universitè de Liège) and Sebastian Hoffmann (Universität Trier), explains the concepts and utility of "grammaticalization" and "lexicalization" in English diachrony. The second case study is connected with the processes of lexical and grammatical change as they apply to comment clauses typically found in spoken discourse ( I you know, I guess, I mean, I think, you know, you see i ...), as well as the three main processes affecting comment clauses and discourse markers: grammaticalization, lexicalization, and pragmaticalization. Corpus linguistics and statistics with R: Introduction to quantitative methods in linguistics. [Extracted from the article]