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Queen Mary's Occasional Papers Advancing Linguistics

Queen Mary’s Occasional Papers Advancing Linguistics (QMOPAL) is a series of working papers by faculty, students, and affiliated visitors at the Department of Linguistics Queen Mary University of London as well as extramural collaborators. Research in the department covers a wide range of topics in socio-, experimental, and theoretical linguistics and this is reflected in the string of OPALs. Papers are listed in reverse chronological order. If you have any questions concerning the series, or to make a submission, please contact Linnaea Stockall.

Style sheets are available for latex:

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QMOPAL_style_sheet_tex [DOC 5KB]

QMPOAL_style_sheet_pdf [PDF 107KB]

and word:

QMOPAL_style_sheet_docx [DOC 26KB]

They are primarily for students. Faculty members should use the style sheet most appropriate to their field or target journal.

Working papers

57) J. Mc Loughlin: WH-Voicing in Dublin English: Women across six decades [PDF 617KB] (MA Thesis)

56) S. Smith: How the Gender Binary is Reimposed on Gender Non-Conforming Identities in Are You The One?: A Mediated Discourse Analysis of Identity Construction in Reality Television [PDF 431KB] (MA Thesis)

55) J. Welton: Acquisition of politeness strategies: a longitudinal case study of a child from one to nine years [PDF 616KB] (MA Thesis)

54) C. Sokol: The tɨ- in Tigrinya: An Analysis of Valence-Decreasing Morphology in Tigrinya [PDF 377KB] (MA Thesis)

53) J. Boivin: Do Lawyers Misread the Law? De Re and De Dicto Interpretation in Belief Reports [PDF 871KB] (MA Thesis)

52) I. Khan Afridi: The Impact of ADHD on Narrative Discourse in Young Adults in University [PDF 758KB]
(BA Dissertation)

51) Y. Chen:‘Women Are Warriors’ or ‘Women Are Flowers’: A Corpus-based Study on the Metaphorical Framings of Women in Women of China [PDF 1,616KB]
(MA Thesis)

50) P. Grant: “Winning your first game”: functional readings of English possessive superlatives and ordinals [PDF 340KB] (MA Thesis)

49) B. Howard: From “the man you love” to “girl boss!”: a critical discourse analysis of feminist ideologies and UK magazine coverlines. [PDF 10,326KB] (MA Thesis)

48) F. Soliman: A content analysis of the gendered language used in online recruitment in Egypt. [PDF 1,604KB]

47) L. Stockall, L. Martí, D. Adger, I. Roy and S. Ouwayda: For Hagit: A celebration

46) H. WenRelative Clauses in Mandarin Chinese [PDF 896KB]

45) R. Graham, D. HarbourRudiments of Tigrinya Ditransitives [PDF 96KB]

44) Z. Adams: The Role of Accent in Increasing the Persuasiveness of a Children’s Oral Health Intervention [PDF 455KB]

43) S. Asinari: Case Syncretism in Russian Numeral Constructions [PDF 775KB] (BA Thesis)

42) D. Harbour: Grammar Drives Writing System Evolution: Lessons from the Birth of Vowels [PDF 333KB]

41) E. Levon, Y. Ye: Language, Indexicality and Gender Ideologies: Contextual Effects on the Perceived Credibility of Women [PDF 1,099KB]

40) C. Ilbury: ‘Beyond the Offline’: Social Media and the Social Meaning of Variation in East London [PDF 4,883KB] (PhD Thesis)

39) S. M. Gates: Language Variation and Ethnicity in a Multicultural East London Secondary School [PDF 12,849KB] (PhD Thesis)

38) M. G. Rinaldi: Bare Singulars and So-Called Bare Singulars [PDF 2,595KB] (PhD Thesis)

37) Z. Adams: The persuasiveness of British accents: Enhancing parental self-efficacy to manage children’s oral health behaviours [PDF 3,942KB] (PhD Thesis)

36) J. Brookes, D. Hall, J. Cheshire, D. Adger: Causal Interrogative Variation in Multicultural and Traditional Varieties of London English [PDF 717KB]

35) D. Hall: Spelling Out the Noun Phrase: Interpretation, Word Order, and the Problem of ‘Meaningless Movement’ [PDF 1,802KB] (PhD Thesis)

34) J. WestonThe linguistic construction of epistemological difference [PDF 1,927KB] (PhD Thesis)

33) J. Cheshire, J. Nortier, D. AdgerEmerging multiethnolects in Europe [PDF 491KB]

32) E. de Leeuw, A. Tusha, H. Zhao, K. Helke, A. GreenfieldA case study of extreme L1 attrition in the domain of phonetics [PDF 255KB]

31) D. Harbour, M. Rinaldi, M. Skene, L. TinayTiwa tales: From the work of Carobeth Tucker Harrington [PDF 340KB]

30) F. Panayidou(In)flexibility in adjective ordering [PDF 1,276KB] (PhD dissertation)

29) M. SecovaDiscours direct chez les jeunes : nouvelles structures, nouvelles fonctions [PDF 362KB]

28) L. BradleyTo be, or not twobe’s? Celtic substrate influence on the Old English copula [PDF 457KB] (BA thesis)

27) O. BrownlowTowards a unified analysis of the syntax andsemantics ofgetconstructions [PDF 1,395KB] (PhD dissertation)

26) D. AdgerConstructions and grammatical explanation [PDF 88KB]

25) M. Secova: ‘ Je sais et tout mais...?: Might the general extenders in European French be cha [PDF 404KB]

24) E. de Leeuw, I. Mennen, J. M. ScobbieDynamic Systems, Maturational Constraints, and L1 Phonetic Attrition [PDF 443KB]

23) E. de LeeuwReassessing maturational constraints through evidence of L1 attrition in the ph [PDF 234KB]

22) D. Sharma, B. RamptonLectal focusing in interaction: A new methodology for the study of superdiverse [PDF 863KB]

21) P. ElbourneIncomplete descriptions and sloppy identity [PDF 630KB]

20) D. Harbour Mythomania? Methods and morals from ?The myth of language universals [PDF 352KB]

19) L. Stockall, E.M. Husband, A. BerettaThe online composition of events [PDF 1,009KB]

18) E. LevonThe voice of others: Identity, alterity and gender normativity among gay men in [PDF 265KB]

17) E. LevonTeasing apart to bring together: Gender and sexuality in variationist research [PDF 133KB]

16) E. LevonThe politics of prosody: Language, sexuality and national belonging in Israel [PDF 223KB]

15) L. MartíImplicit indefinite objects: The barest of the bare [PDF 477KB]

14) E. de Leeuw, I. Mennen, J.M. ScobbieSinging a different tune in your native language: First language attrition of p [PDF 839KB]

13) C. CiarloSubject clitic variability is not free variation: Evidence from a Northern Ital [PDF 602KB]

12) D. Sharma, A. DeoContact-based aspectual restructuring: A critique of the Aspect Hypothesis [PDF 509KB]

11) J. Cheshire, S. FoxWas/were?variation: A perspective from London [PDF 263KB]

10) A. KleemannFocus particle placement within German event nominals [PDF 164KB]

9) C. Cotter, J. DamasoOnline dictionaries as emergent archives of contemporary usage and collaborativ [PDF 254KB]

7) E. PetitCompliments and gender in French single-sex friendship groups [PDF 235KB]

6) D. HarbourPerson hierarchies and geometry without hierarchies or geometries [PDF 596KB]

5) D. HarbourNumber: Morphological use of semantic means [PDF 157KB]

4) D. AdgerFracturing the adjective: Evidence from Gaelic comparatives [PDF 158KB]

3) K. TanabeSpeech Patterns of Japanese Girls or Gals: Symbol of Identity & Opposition to Power [PDF 271KB]

2) E. Petit: Topics of Conversation and Gender in French Single-Sex Friendship Groups [PDF 233KB]

1) A. KleemannDistribution and interpretation of the German focus particle?nur??only? in sent [PDF 191KB]

WH-Voicing in Dublin English: Women across six decades [PDF 617KB]

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