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:
QMPOAL_style_sheet_sty [DOC 2KB]
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. Wen: Relative Clauses in Mandarin Chinese [PDF 896KB]
45) R. Graham, D. Harbour: Rudiments 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. Weston: The linguistic construction of epistemological difference [PDF 1,927KB] (PhD Thesis)
33) J. Cheshire, J. Nortier, D. Adger: Emerging multiethnolects in Europe [PDF 491KB]
32) E. de Leeuw, A. Tusha, H. Zhao, K. Helke, A. Greenfield: A case study of extreme L1 attrition in the domain of phonetics [PDF 255KB]
31) D. Harbour, M. Rinaldi, M. Skene, L. Tinay: Tiwa 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. Secova: Discours direct chez les jeunes : nouvelles structures, nouvelles fonctions [PDF 362KB]
28) L. Bradley: To be, or not twobe’s? Celtic substrate influence on the Old English copula [PDF 457KB] (BA thesis)
27) O. Brownlow: Towards a unified analysis of the syntax andsemantics ofgetconstructions [PDF 1,395KB] (PhD dissertation)
26) D. Adger: Constructions 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. Scobbie: Dynamic Systems, Maturational Constraints, and L1 Phonetic Attrition [PDF 443KB]
23) E. de Leeuw: Reassessing maturational constraints through evidence of L1 attrition in the ph [PDF 234KB]
22) D. Sharma, B. Rampton: Lectal focusing in interaction: A new methodology for the study of superdiverse [PDF 863KB]
21) P. Elbourne: Incomplete 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. Beretta: The online composition of events [PDF 1,009KB]
18) E. Levon: The voice of others: Identity, alterity and gender normativity among gay men in [PDF 265KB]
17) E. Levon: Teasing apart to bring together: Gender and sexuality in variationist research [PDF 133KB]
16) E. Levon: The politics of prosody: Language, sexuality and national belonging in Israel [PDF 223KB]
15) L. MartÃ: Implicit indefinite objects: The barest of the bare [PDF 477KB]
14) E. de Leeuw, I. Mennen, J.M. Scobbie: Singing a different tune in your native language: First language attrition of p [PDF 839KB]
13) C. Ciarlo: Subject clitic variability is not free variation: Evidence from a Northern Ital [PDF 602KB]
12) D. Sharma, A. Deo: Contact-based aspectual restructuring: A critique of the Aspect Hypothesis [PDF 509KB]
11) J. Cheshire, S. Fox: Was/were?variation: A perspective from London [PDF 263KB]
10) A. Kleemann: Focus particle placement within German event nominals [PDF 164KB]
9) C. Cotter, J. Damaso: Online dictionaries as emergent archives of contemporary usage and collaborativ [PDF 254KB]
7) E. Petit: Compliments and gender in French single-sex friendship groups [PDF 235KB]
6) D. Harbour: Person hierarchies and geometry without hierarchies or geometries [PDF 596KB]
5) D. Harbour: Number: Morphological use of semantic means [PDF 157KB]
4) D. Adger: Fracturing the adjective: Evidence from Gaelic comparatives [PDF 158KB]
3) K. Tanabe: Speech 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. Kleemann: Distribution and interpretation of the German focus particle?nur??only? in sent [PDF 191KB]
WH-Voicing in Dublin English: Women across six decades [PDF 617KB]