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1.1Preferred grammatical features of Text Sample 1.3 (literary criticism) versus Text Sample 1.4 (science)
1.2Characterizations of academic writing as elaborated and/or explicit
1.3Summary of major grammatical differences between four text excerpts
1.4Challenging basic assumptions about grammatical complexity, linguistic change, and academic writing through corpus-based analyses
2.1Academic research journals sampled for the 20th Century Research Article Corpus
2.2Design and composition of the 20th Century Research Article Corpus
2.3Complete academic writing corpus used for long-term historical analyses in the book
2.5Colloquial grammatical features investigated in the study
2.6Example complexity features, by structural type versus syntactic function
2.7Complexity features investigated in the study, by structural type versus syntactic function
3.1Grammatical features that are especially common in academic prose (based on a survey of the Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English)
3.2The oral/literate dimension (Factor 1) in selected MD studies of particular discourse domains in English
3.3Statistical comparisons for finite dependent clause types
3.4Statistical comparisons for non-finite dependent clause types
3.5Statistical comparisons for dependent phrase types (non-clausal)
3.6Statistical comparisons for major word classes across three general written registers
3.7Statistical comparisons for dependent clause features across three general written registers
3.8Statistical comparisons for phrasal modifiers across three general written registers
3.9Statistical comparisons for major word classes across disciplines in academic writing
3.10Statistical comparisons for dependent clause features across disciplines in academic writing
3.11Statistical comparisons for phrasal noun modifiers across disciplines in academic writing
4.1Historical change in the use of general linguistic features, shown by Pearson correlation coefficients (r) for the rate of occurrence correlated with date (1750–1990)
4.2Historical change in the use of colloquial features, shown by Pearson correlation coefficients for the rate of occurrence correlated with date (1800–1990)
4.3Historical change in the use of complexity features, shown by Pearson correlation coefficients (r) for the rate of occurrence correlated with date (1750–1990)
4.4Summary of the ANOVA factorial models for four academic sub-registers (specialist science, specialist social science, multi-disciplinary science, humanities) in three recent historical periods (1965, 1985, 2005)
6.1Statistical comparisons for clause connectors signaling logical relations
7.1Hypothesized developmental stages for complexity features
A1.1Descriptive statistics for lexical verbs, adjectives, and adverbs
A1.2Descriptive statistics for passive voice verbs, nominalizations, and prepositional phrases
A1.3Descriptive statistics for finite adverbial clauses, complement clauses, and relative clauses
A2.1Descriptive statistics for five grammatical features in academic sub-registers from three recent historical periods (1965, 1985, 2005) (rates of occurrence per 1,000 words)
