Research: MICASE Kibbitzer

Tim Johns was the originator of the Kibbitzer pages (at Birmingham University). Each kibbitzer page contains the discussion of a language problem, which may be mainly lexical (to do with vocabulary), syntactic (mostly to do with grammar), or discoursal (how ideas are linked), or it may be from more than one of these areas.

Criteria/data: Uncountable or Countable? (by John Swales)
Among or Between (by Faye Reinhard and John Swales)
Hyperbole in Academic and Research Speech (by Aaron Ohlrogge & Judy Tsang)
Less and Fewer? (by John Swales and Faye Reinhard)
Making suggestions in MICASE (by John Swales & Sheryl Leicher)
Modal contractions in MICASE: The case of will/'ll (by Sara Pilon & John Swales)
No way (by Aaron Ohlrogge)
Announcements of Self-repair (by Stephanie Marx & John Swales)
"Anyone" and "anybody" in MICASE (by John Swales)
The distribution of anaphoric so in MICASE (by Jennifer McCormick & Sarah Richardson)
Pre- and post-dislocations in MICASE (by Rebecca Maybaum & John Swales)
Vocatives in MICASE (by Jennifer McCormick & Sarah Richardson)
‘End up’ in MICASE (by Rafael Alejo, Annelie Adel, Jamie Kruis & John Swales )
Interactional Query formulae in MICASE: “you know what I mean?" (by John Swales )

How to do MICASE-based Investigations:

Starting with a Word: Concern (by John Swales)
Starting with a Functional Category (by John Swales)