The Register-Functional Approach to Grammatical Complexity

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PART I: The Register-Functional Perspective on Complexity

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Theoretical and Descriptive Linguistic Foundation of the Register-Functional Approach to Grammatical Complexity

Chapter 3: Overview of the Analytical Methods Used in Register-Functional Complexity Research

PART II: Descriptive Linguistic Studies of Synchronic Patterns

Chapter 4: On the complexity of discourse complexity: A multidimensional analysis

Chapter 5: Challenging stereotypes about academic writing: Complexity, elaboration, explicitness

Chapter 6: On the complexity of academic writing: Disciplinary variation and structural complexity

Chapter 7: Stance and grammatical complexity: An unlikely partnership discovered through corpus analysis

PART III: Descriptive Linguistic Studies of Diachronic Patterns

Chapter 8: Grammatical change in the noun phrase: The influence of written language use

Chapter 9: Being specific about historical change: The influence of sub-register

Chapter 10: Nominalizing the verb phrase in academic science writing

Chapter 11: The functional extension of phrasal grammatical features in academic writing

Chapter 12: The loss of explicitness in academic research writing

PART IV: Applied Research

Chapter 13: Rationale and hypotheses for the study of writing development from the RF perspective

Chapter 14: Should we use characteristics of conversation to measure grammatical complexity in L2 writing development?

Chapter 15: Predicting patterns of grammatical complexity across language exam task types and proficiency levels.

Chapter 16: Academic writing development at the university level: Phrasal and clausal complexity across level of study, discipline, and genre

Chapter 17: Understanding first-year L2 writing: A lexico-grammatical analysis across L1s, genres, and language ratings

Chapter 18: Exploring the longitudinal development of grammatical complexity in the disciplinary writing of L2-English university students

Chapter 19: The longitudinal development of grammatical complexity at the phrasal and clausal levels in spoken and written responses to the TOEFL iBT test

Chapter 20: Investigating grammatical complexity in L2 English writing research: Linguistic description versus predictive measurement

PART V: Conclusion

Chapter 21: Reflecting on the Register-Functional Approach to Grammatical Complexity: What do we know and where do we go from here?

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