Refereed Journal Articles
* Denotes publications in major refereed journals.
*Egbert, J., D. Biber, B. Gray, T. Larsson. to appear. Achieving stability in corpus-based analysis of word types. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics.
*Egbert, J., D. Biber, M. Gracheva, and D. Keller. to appear. Register and the dual nature of functional correspondence: Accounting for text-linguistic variation between registers, within registers, and without registers. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory.
*Biber, D., T. Larsson, G.R. Hancock, R. Reppen, S. Staples, and B. Gray. to appear. Comparing theory-based models of grammatical complexity in student writing . International Journal of Learner Corpus Research.
160. *Biber, D., B. Szmrecsanyi, R. Reppen, and T. Larsson. 2024. Expanding the scope of grammatical variation: Towards a comprehensive account of genitive variation across registers. English Language and Linguistics 28(1).95-133.
159. *Larsson, T., T. Berber-Sardinha, B. Gray, and D. Biber. 2023. Exploring early L2 writing development through the lens of grammatical complexity. Applied Corpus Linguistics 3(3), 10077.
158. *Biber, D., T. Larsson, and G.R. Hancock. 2023. Dimensions of text complexity in the spoken and written modes: A comparison of theory-based models. Journal of English Linguistics 51(1).65-94.
157. *Larsson, T., D. Biber, and G.R. Hancock. 2023. On the role of cumulative knowledge building and specific hypotheses: The case of grammatical complexity. Corpora 19(3).
156. *Biber, D., T. Larsson, and G.R. Hancock. 2023. The linguistic organization of grammatical text complexity: Comparing the empirical adequacy of theory-based models. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory.
155. *Biber, D. and J. Egbert. 2023. What is a register? Accounting for linguistic and situational variation within – and outside of – textual varieties. Register Studies.
154. *Egbert, J., and D. Biber. 2023. Key feature analysis—A simple, yet powerful method for comparing text varieties. Corpora 18 (Issue 1).
153. *Staples, S., B. Gray, D. Biber, and J. Egbert. 2022. Writing Trajectories of Grammatical
Complexity at the University: Comparing L1 and L2 English Writers in BAWE. Applied Linguistics.
152. * Goulart, L., Biber, D. & Reppen, R. 2022. In this essay I will... Examining variation of communicative purpose in student written genres. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 59. doi.org/10.1016/j.jeap.2022.101159
151. *Larsson, T., J. Egbert, and D. Biber. 2022. On the status of statistical reporting versus linguistic description in corpus linguistics: A ten-year perspective. Corpora 17.137-157.
150. *Egbert, J. S. Wizner, D. Keller, D. Biber, T. McEnery, and P. Baker. (2021). Identifying and describing functional discourse units in the BNC Spoken 2014. Text and Talk 41.715-737.
149. *Omidian, T., A. Siyanova-Chanturia, and D. Biber. 2021. A new multidimensional model of writing for research publication: An analysis of disciplinarity, intra-textual variation, and L1 versus LX expert writing. Journal of English for Academic Purposes 53.
148. *Biber, D., J. Egbert, D. Keller, S. Wizner. 2021. Towards a taxonomy of conversational discourse types: An empirical corpus-based analysis. Journal of Pragmatics 171.20-35.
147. Biber, D., and J. Egbert. 2021. Variação de registro na Internet: uma análise multidimensional. Matraga 28.383-438. [Translation of Biber and Egbert 2016; #220 below]
146. Biber, D. 2020. Corpus analysis of spoken discourse. In O. Kang, S. Staples, K. Yaw, & K. Hirschi (eds.), Proceedings of the 11th Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching conference, pp. 5–7. Ames, IA: Iowa State University.
145. *Pan, F., R. Reppen, and D. Biber. 2020. Methodological issues in contrastive lexical bundle research: The influence of corpus design on bundle identification. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 25. 214–228.
144. Goulart, L., B. Gray, S. Staples, A. Black, A. Shelton, D. Biber, J. Egbert, S. Wizner. 2020. Linguistic perspectives on register. Annual Review of Linguistics 6.435–455.
143. *Biber, D., B. Gray, S. Staples, and J. Egbert. 2021. Investigating grammatical complexity in L2 English writing research: Linguistic description versus predictive measurement. Journal of English for Academic Purposes. 46.??? https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeap.2020.100869
142. *Biber, D., J. Egbert, and D. Keller. 2020. Reconceptualizing register in a continuous situational space. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory. 16.581-616. https://doi.org/10.1515/cllt-2018-0086
141. *Egbert, J., B. Burch, and D. Biber. 2020. Lexical Dispersion and Corpus Design. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 25.89-115.
140. *Biber, D., R. Reppen, S. Staples, J. Egbert. 2020. Exploring the longitudinal development of grammatical complexity in the disciplinary writing of L2-English university students. International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 6.38-71. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/ijlcr.18007.bib
139. Laippala et al., 2019. Laippala, V., Kyll¨onen, R., Egbert, J., Biber, D., and Pyysalo, S. (2019). Toward multilingual identification of online registers. In Proceedings of the 22nd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 292–297, Turku, Finland. Link¨oping University Electronic Press
138. *Biber, D. 2019. Text-linguistic approaches to register variation. Register Studies 1.42-75.
137. *Egbert, J. and D. Biber. 2019. Incorporating text dispersion into keyword analyses. Corpora 14.77-104.
136. *Gardner, S., H. Nesi, and D. Biber. 2019. Discipline, level, genre: Integrating situational perspectives in a new MD analysis of university student writing. Applied Linguistics 40. 646-674. [https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amy005]
135. *Staples, S., Biber, D. & Reppen, R. 2018. Using corpus-based register analysis to explore the validity of high stakes language exams: A register comparison of TOEFL iBT and disciplinary writing tasks. Modern Language Journal 102(2).310 - 332.
134. *Biber, D., and M. Zhang. 2018. Expressing evaluation without grammatical stance: Informational persuasion on the web. Corpora 13.97-123.
133. *Burch, B., J. Egbert, and D. Biber. 2017. Measuring and interpreting lexical dispersion in corpus linguistics. Journal of Research Design and Statistics in Linguistics and Communication Science 3.189-216. [https://doi.org/10.1558/jrds.33066
132. *Biber, D, Reppen, R., & Staples, S. 2017. Exploring the Relationship between TOEFL iBT Scores and Disciplinary Writing Performance. TESOL Quarterly, 51, 4 948 - 960.
131. *Biber, D., B. Gray, and S. Staples. 2016. Predicting patterns of grammatical complexity across language exam task types and proficiency levels. Applied Linguistics 37(5).639-668.
130. *Biber, D., Randi Reppen, Erin Schnur and Romy Ghanem. 2016. On the (non)utility of Juilland’s D to measure lexical dispersion in large corpora. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 21.439–464.
129. *Biber, D., and J. Egbert. 2016. Using multi-dimensional analysis to study register variation on the searchable web. Corpus Linguistics Research 2.1-23.
128. *Biber, D., and Bethany Gray. 2016. Grammatical change in the noun phrase: The influence of written language use. 20th Anniversary Collection, English Language and Linguistics. [Reprint of Biber and Gray 2011]
127. *Egbert, J., and D. Biber. 2016. Do all roads lead to Rome?: Modeling register variation with factor analysis and discriminant analysis. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory. DOI 10.1515/cllt-2016-0016
126. *Biber, D., and J. Egbert. 2016. Register variation on the searchable web: A multi-dimensional analysis. Journal of English Linguistics 44.95-137.
125. *Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt, D. Biber, J. Egbert & K. Franco. 2016. Toward more accountability: Modeling ternary genitive variation in Late Modern English. Language Variation and Change 28.1-29.
124. *Staples, S., J. Egbert, D. Biber, and B. Gray. 2016. Academic writing development at the university level: Phrasal and clausal complexity across level of study, discipline, and genre. Written Communication, 33.149-183.
123. *Fan, P., R. Reppen, and D. Biber, D. 2016. Comparing patterns of L1 versus L2 English academic professionals: Lexical bundles in Telecommunications research journals. Journal of English for Academic Purposes (JEAP), 21.1-12.
122. *Biber, D., and J. Egbert. 2015. Using grammatical features for automatic register identification in an unrestricted corpus of documents from the open web. Journal of Research Design and Statistics in Linguistics and Communication Science 2.3-36.
121. Biber, D. 2015. Stance and grammatical complexity: An unlikely partnership discovered through corpus analysis. Corpus Linguistics Research 1.1-19.
120. *Donald Miller and Biber, D. 2015. Evaluating reliability in quantitative vocabulary studies: The influence of corpus design and composition. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 20(1).30-53.
119. *Biber, D., J. Egbert, and M. Davies. 2015. Exploring the Composition of the Searchable Web: A Corpus-based Taxonomy of Web Registers. Corpora 10(1).11-45.
118. *Egbert, J. D. Biber, and M. Davies. 2015. Developing a Bottom-up, User-based Method of Web Register Classification. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 66(9).1817-1831.
117. *Biber, D. 2014. Using multi-dimensional analysis to explore cross-linguistic universals of register variation. Languages in Contrast 14(1).7–34
116. *Gates Tapia, Anna M. and D. Biber. 2014. Lexico-grammatical stance in Spanish news reportage: Socio-political influences on Que-complement clauses and adverbials in Ecuadorian broadsheets. Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada 27.208-237.
115. *Friginal, Eric. 2013. Twenty-five years of Biber’s Multi-Dimensional Analysis: Introduction to the special issue and an interview with Douglas Biber. Corpora 8.137-152.
114. *Gray, Bethany. 2013. Interview with Douglas Biber. Journal of English Linguistics 41.359-379.
113. *Biber, D. 2013. A typology of English texts. Linguistics 51; 50-year Jubilee Issue.
(Reprint of Biber, D. 1989. Linguistics 27.3-43. Selected as the most influential article for the third decade of Linguistics, 1983-1993. With new introductory comments by DB, pp. 15-17).
112. Egbert, J., and D. Biber. 2013. Developing a User-based Method of Web Register Classification. In S. Evert, E. Stemle, and P. Rayson (eds.), Proceedings of the 8th Web as Corpus Workshop (WAC-8) @Corpus Linguistics 2013, pp. 16-23.
111. *Biber, D., and Bethany Gray. 2013. Being specific about historical change: The influence of sub-register. Journal of English Linguistics 41.104-134.
110. Biber, D. 2013. Life paths of famous linguists: Doug Biber. The Linguist List. http://linguistlist.org/studentportal/linguists/index.cfm.
109. *Staples, S., J. Egbert, D. Biber, and A. McClair. 2013. Formulaic Sequences and EAP Writing Development: Lexical Bundles in the TOEFL iBT Writing Section. Journal of English for Academic Purposes 12.214-225.
108. *Gray, B., and D. Biber. 2013. Lexical Frames in Academic Prose and Conversation. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 18.109–135.
107. *Biber, D., Bethany Gray, Kornwipa Poonpon. 2013. Pay attention to the phrasal structures: Going beyond T-units. TESOL Quarterly 47.192-201.
106. *Biber, D. 2012. Register as a predictor of linguistic variation. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 8.9-37.
105. Biber, D. and B. Gray. 2012. The influence of sub-register on historical change. Stylistics across Disciplines Conference Proceedings, pp. 1-14. Universiteit Leiden.
104. Biber, D. 2012. Review article: Sociolinguistics and Corpus Linguistics (Paul Baker) and Corpus and Sociolinguistics: Investigating Age and Gender in Female Talk (Bróna Murphy ). Journal of Sociolinguistics 16.301-307.
103. *Biber, D., and Bethany Gray. 2011. Grammatical change in the noun phrase: The influence of written language use. English Language and Linguistics 15.223-250.
102. *Biber, D., Bethany Gray, Kornwipa Poonpon. 2011. Should we use characteristics of conversation to measure grammatical complexity in L2 writing development? TESOL Quarterly 45.5-35.
101. *Biber, D. 2011. Corpus linguistics and the study of literature: Back to the future? Scientific Study of Literature 1.15–23.
100. *Biber, D., and Bethany Gray. 2010. Challenging stereotypes about academic writing: Complexity, elaboration, explicitness. Journal of English for Academic Purposes 9.2-20.
99. Biber, D. 2009. A corpus-driven approach to formulaic language in English: Extending the construct of lexical bundle. In L. Eckstein and C. Reinfandt (eds.), Anglistentag 2008 Proceedings, 367-377. Berlin: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
99. Toth, M. 2009. Interview with Douglas Biber. University of Pecs Newsletter. http://english.pte.hu/hirek/376.
98. *Biber, D. 2009. A corpus-driven approach to formulaic language: Multi-word patterns in speech and writing. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 14.275-311.
97. Biber, D. 2009. Did Daniel Wemp really say that? Using corpus linguistics to evaluate the likelihood that Jared Diamond’s reported quotes in The New Yorker were ever spoken. Stinky Journalism.org. [http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-157.php]
96. *Biber, D., and F. Barbieri. 2007. Lexical bundles in university spoken and written registers. English for Specific Purposes 26.263-86.
95. *Biber, D. 2006. Stance in spoken and written university registers. Journal of English for Academic Purposes 5.97-116.
94. *Biber, D., M. Davies, J. K. Jones, and N. Tracy-Ventura. 2006. Spoken and written register variation in Spanish: A multi-dimensional analysis. Corpora 1.7-38.
93. *Biber, D., and J.K. Jones. 2005. Merging corpus linguistic and discourse analytic research goals: Discourse units in biology research articles. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 1.151-182.
92. Biber, D. 2005. What can corpus linguistics tell us about English grammar? TESOL Applied Linguistics Forum 26.1-8.
91. Biber, D. 2005. Corpus linguistics and the study of English grammar. Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching 1.1-21.
90. Biber, D. 2005. Paquetes léxicos en textos de estudio universitario: Variación entre disciplinas académicas. Revista signos 38.19-29.
89. *Biber, D., S. Conrad, and V. Cortes. 2004. If you look at…: Lexical bundles in university teaching and textbooks. Applied Linguistics 25.371-405.
88. Conrad, S. and D. Biber. 2004. The frequency and use of lexical bundles in conversation and academic prose. Lexicographica: International Annual for Lexicography 20.56-71.
87. *Biber, D. 2004. Historical patterns for the grammatical marking of stance: A cross-register comparison. Journal of Historical Pragmatics 5.107-135.
86. *Kretzschmar, William A., Clayton Darwin, Cati Brown, Donald L. Rubin, and D. Biber. 2004. Looking for the smoking gun: Principled sampling in creating the tobacco industry documents corpus. Journal of English Linguistics 32.31-47.
85. Biber, D. 2004. Conversation text types: A multi-dimensional analysis. In Gérald Purnelle, Cédrick Fairon, and Anne Dister (eds.), Le poids des mots: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on the Statistical Analysis of Textual Data, 15-34. Louvain: Presses universitaires de Louvain.
85. Biber, D. 2003. Review of: Contrastive rhetoric revisited and redefined. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 25. 463-4.
84. *Biber, D., S. Conrad, R. Reppen, P. Byrd, and M. Helt. 2003. Strengths and goals of multi-dimensional analysis: A response to Ghadessy. TESOL Quarterly 37.151-55.
83. *Biber, D., R. Reppen, and S. Conrad. 2002. Developing linguistic literacy: Perspectives from corpus linguistics and multi-dimensional analysis. Journal of Child Language 29.449-488.
82. *Biber, D., S. Conrad, R. Reppen, P. Byrd, and M. Helt. 2002. Speaking and writing in the university: A multi-dimensional comparison. TESOL Quarterly 36.9-48.
81. *Biber, D.. and R. Reppen. 2002. What does frequency have to do with grammar teaching? Studies in Second Language Acquisition 24.199-208.
80. *Biber, D., and S. Conrad. 2001. Quantitative corpus-based research: Much more than bean counting. TESOL Quarterly 35.331-6.
79. Biber, D. 2001. Corpus linguistics and the study of English grammar. English Corpus Studies 8.1-18.
78. Reppen, R., and D. Biber. 2001. Habeas corpus, but will you be using it in class? EL Gazette, February issue (TESOL Special), page 1.
77. *Biber, D. 2001. Review of: Vihla, Minna. Medical writing: Modality in focus. Journal of Historical Pragmatics 2.175-6.
76. *Biber, D., and J. Burges. 2000. Historical change in the language use of women and men: Gender differences in dramatic dialogue. Journal of English Linguistics 28.21-37. (Reprinted in Conrad and Biber (eds.) (2001), 157-170.)
75. Biber, D. 2000. Using corpora to investigate the lexical associations of related words. Japanese Association of English Corpus Studies Newsletter. Itabashi, Japan.
74. Conrad, S., and D. Biber, D. 2000. What you need to know about academic writing: Part 2. EL Gazette, June issue, page 10.
73. Biber, D. and S. Conrad. 2000. What you need to know about academic writing: Part 1. EL Gazette, May issue, page 8.
72. *Biber, D. 1999. A register perspective on grammar and discourse: Variability in the form and use of English complement clauses. Discourse Studies 1.131-150.
71. *Biber, D. 1999. Review of: Ludovic, Lebart, Andre Salem, and Lisette Berry. Exploring textual data. Computational Linguistics 25.165-6.
70. Biber, D. 1999. Review of: Westergren, Margareta. Contraction in British newspapers in the late 20th century. Studia Neophilologica 71.262-3.
69. Biber, D. 1999. Want to and know that: Complementation patterns in speech and academic writing. Longman Language Review 5.15-21.
68. Biber, D. and J. Jamieson. 1998. Final report: Pilot study to test the influence of linguistic variables on listening and reading test performance. Technical Report, Educational Testing Service. (24 pages)
67. *Biber, D. 1996. Investigating language use through corpus-based analyses of association patterns. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 1.171-197.
66. Biber, D., S. Conrad, and R. Reppen. 1996. Corpus-based investigations of language use. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 16.115-136.
65. Biber, D. 1996. Corpus revolutionises how we view language. EL Gazette, October issue, page 5.
64. *Biber, D. 1995. On the role of computational, statistical, and interpretive techniques in multi-dimensional analyses of register variation: A reply to Watson (1994). Text 15.341-370.
63. Biber, D. 1995. Representativeness in corpus design. Linguistica Computazionale IX-X.377-407. [Reprint of 1993 article in Literary and Linguistic Computing]
62. *Biber, D. 1995. Review of: Street, Brian V. (ed.). Cross-cultural approaches to literacy. Language in Society 24.447-451.
61. *Biber, D., S. Conrad, R. Reppen. 1994. Corpus-based approaches to issues in applied linguistics. Applied Linguistics 15.169-189.
60. Biber, D., E. Finegan, and D. Atkinson. 1994. ARCHER and its challenges: Compiling and exploring A Representative Corpus of Historical English Registers. In Creating and using English language corpora, ed. by U. Fries, G. Tottie and P. Schneider, 1-14. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
59. Biber, D., and E. Finegan. 1994. Intra-textual variation within medical research articles. In Corpus-based research into language, ed. by N. Oostdijk and P. de Haan, 201-222. Amsterdam: Rodopi. (Reprinted in Conrad and Biber (eds.) (2001), 108-123.)
58. Biber, D., E. Finegan, D. Atkinson, A. Beck, D. Burges, and J. Burges. 1994. The Design and Analysis of the ARCHER Corpus: A Progress Report. In Corpora across the centuries, ed. by M. Kyto, M. Rissanen, and S. Wright, 3-6. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
(Research articles #52 - #57 were published In Sociolinguistic perspectives on register, ed. by D. Biber and E. Finegan, OUP)
57. Biber, D., and E. Finegan. 1994. Introduction: Situating register in sociolinguistics. Pp. 3-12.
56. Biber, D. 1994. An analytical framework for register studies. Pp. 31-56.
55. Kim, Y-J., and D. Biber. 1994. A corpus-based analysis of register variation in Korean. Pp. 157-181.
54. Biber, D., and M. Hared. 1994. Linguistic correlates of the transition to literacy in Somali: Language adaptation in six press registers. pp. 182-216.
53. Finegan, E., and D. Biber. 1994. Register and social dialect variation: An integrated approach. Pp. 315-347.
52. Atkinson, D., and D. Biber. 1994. Register: A review of empirical research. Pp. 351-385.
51. *Biber, D. 1993. Representativeness in corpus design. Literary and Linguistic Computing 8.243-257.
50. *Biber, D. 1993. Co-occurrence patterns among collocations: A tool for corpus-based lexical knowledge acquisition. Computational Linguistics 19.549-556.
49. *Biber, D. 1993. Using register-diversified corpora for general language studies. Computational Linguistics 19.219-241.
(Reprinted in: Using Large Corpora, ed. by S. Armstrong (1994), 179-201. Cambridge, MASS: MIT Press.)
48. *Biber, D. 1993. The multi-dimensional approach to linguistic analyses of genre variation: An overview of methodology and findings. Computers and the Humanities 26.331-345.
47. Biber, D. 1993. Review of: Macaulay, Marcia I. Processing varieties in English: An examination of oral and written speech across genres. Canadian Journal of Linguistics 37.67-69.
46. Biber, D. 1993. Review of: Giles, Howard, and Nikolas Coupland. Language: Contexts and consequences. Language 69.856-857.
45. Biber, D. 1992. Experimental evidence concerning the acquisition of a Somali discourse rule. In Proceedings of the First International Congress of Somali Studies, ed. by H. M. Adam and C.L. Geshekter, 398-423. Chico, CA: Scholars Press.
44. Biber, D. 1992. Using computer-based text corpora to analyze the referential strategies of spoken and written texts. Directions in Corpus Linguistics: Proceedings of Nobel Symposium 82, Stockholm, 4-8 August 1991, edited by Jan Svartvik, pp. 213-252. Berlin: Mouton.
43. *Biber, D., and M. Hared. 1992. Dimensions of register variation in Somali. Language Variation and Change 4.41-75.
42. *Biber, D. 1992. On the complexity of discourse complexity: A multidimensional analysis. Discourse Processes 15.133-163. (Reprinted in Conrad and Biber (eds.) (2001), 215-240.)
41. Biber, D. and M. Hared. 1992. Literacy in Somali: Linguistic consequences. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 12.260-282.
40. Biber, D. 1992. Somali. Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Volume 4.25-27.
39. *Biber, D. 1992. Review of: Johansson, Stig, and Anna-Brita Stenstrm (eds.). English computer corpora: Selected papers and research guide. Computational Linguistics 18.549-551.
38. *Biber, D. 1991. Oral and literate characteristics of selected primary school reading materials. Text 11.73-96. (Special issue on Studies of orality and literacy: Critical issues for the practice of schooling, ed. by R. Horowitz.)
37. Biber, D. 1991. Review of: Stig Johansson and Knut Hofland. Frequency analysis of English vocabulary and grammar. Language 67.406-7.
36. Biber, D. 1991. Review of: Ulrich Ammon (ed.). Status and function of languages and language varieties. Language 67.388-9.
35. Biber, D. 1991. Review of: Vit Bubenik. Hellenistic and Roman Greece as a sociolinguistic area. Language 67.391-2.
34. Biber, D. 1991. Review of: Garside, Roger, et al. (eds.). The computational analysis of English. Lingua 386.307-309.
33. *Biber, D. 1990. Methodological issues regarding corpus-based analyses of linguistic variation. Literary and Linguistic Computing 5.257-269.
32. Biber, D. 1990. Review of: Willem Meijs (ed.). Advances in corpora linguistics. Linguistics 28.584-586.
31. *Biber, D. 1989. A typology of English texts. Linguistics 27.3-43.
30. *Biber, D., and E. Finegan. 1989. Drift and the evolution of English style: A history of three genres. Language 65.487-517.
29. *Biber, D., and E. Finegan. 1989. Styles of stance in English: Lexical and grammatical marking of evidentiality and affect. Text 9.93-124. (special issue on The pragmatics of affect, ed. by Elinor Ochs).
28. Biber, D., and E. Finegan. 1989. Problems in the automatic grammatical tagging of seventeenth-century English texts. ICAME Journal 13.49.
27. *Biber, D. 1989. Review of: John I. Saeed. The syntax of focus and topic in Somali.; John I. Saeed. Somali reference grammar.; Virginia Luling. Somali-English dictionary. Language 65.628-632.
26. *Biber, D. and E. Finegan. 1988. Adverbial stance types in English. Discourse Processes 11.1-34.
25. *Biber, D. 1987. A textual comparison of British and American writing. American Speech 62.99-119.
24. Biber, D. 1987. Review of: Christopher Butler. Statistics in linguistics; Computers in linguistics. Language 63.455-56.
23. *Biber, D. 1986. Spoken and written textual dimensions in English: Resolving the contradictory findings. Language 62.384‑414.
22. *Biber, D. 1986. On the investigation of spoken/written differences. Studia Linguistica 40.1-38.
21. *Biber, D. 1986. Review article of 'Strategies of discourse comprehension', by Teun A. van Dijk and Walter Kintsch. Language 62.664‑8.
20. Finegan, E., and D. Biber. 1986. Uncovering dimensions of linguistic variation in English: A research report. ICAME News 10.49‑52.
19. *Biber, D. 1985. Investigating macroscopic textual variation through multi‑feature/multi‑dimensional analyses. Linguistics 23.337‑60. (Special issue on Computational Tools for doing Linguistics, ed. by G. Gazdar).
18. Biber, D. 1985. Review of: F. Mino‑Garces. Early reading acquisition: six psycholinguistic case studies. Language 61.81.
17. Biber, D. 1985. Review of: A.S. Palmer, P.J.M. Groot, and G.A. Trosper. The construct validation of tests of communicative competence. Language 61.123.
16. Biber, D. 1985. Review of: Michael Hoey. On the surface of discourse. Language 61.734-5.
15. Biber, D. 1984. A model of textual relations within the written and spoken modes. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Southern California.
14. *Biber, D. 1984. Pragmatic roles in Central Somali narrative discourse. Studies in African Linguistics 15.1‑26.
13. *Biber, D. 1984. The diachronic development of preverbal case markers in Somali. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 6.47‑61.
12. Biber, D. 1984. Review of: E.S. Glenn, with C.G. Glenn. Man and mankind: Conflict and communication between cultures. Language 60.471‑472.
11. Biber, D. 1984. Review of: B. Heine. The Waata dialect of Oromo: Grammatical sketch and vocabulary.; B. Heine. Boni dialects. Language 60.992-993.
10. Biber, D. 1984. Review of: J. Saeed. Central Somali--A grammatical outline. Language 60.993.
9. *Biber, D. 1983. Differential competence in Somali: evidence from the acquisition of noun definitisation. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 13.275‑295.
8. Biber, D. 1983. Discourse evidence relating to follow‑up reading materials. Notes on Literacy. Pp. 2‑7.
7. Biber, D. 1983. Review of: M.M. Wendell. Bookstrap literature: Preliterate societies do it themselves. Quarterly Report of the Council on National Literatures, 12‑13. Reprinted in Notes on Literacy. 1984. Pp. 24‑26.
6. *Biber, D. 1982. Accent in the Central Somali nominal system. Studies in African Linguistics 13.1‑10.
5. Biber, D. 1982. Review of: C. Ehret. The historical reconstruction of southern Cushitic phonology and vocabulary. Language 58.949‑950.
4. *Biber, D. 1981. The lexical representation of contour tones. International Journal of American Linguistics 47.271‑282.
3. *Biber, D. 1981. More on extrinsically ordered rules: the case of Copainala Zoque. Linguistics 19.1013‑1018.
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Laippala, V., S. R¨onnqvist, M. Oinonen, A.-J. Kyr¨ol¨ainen, A. Salmela, D. Biber, J. Egbert, S. Pyysalo. To appear. Register identification from the unrestricted open Web using the Corpus of Online Registers of English. Language Resources and Evaluation