Marta Pacheco-Franco
Biographic Data
| ID | 5400471 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marta Pacheco-Franco |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marta |
| FAMILY NAME | Pacheco-Franco |
| SIGNATURE | PACHECO-FRANCO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de Málaga |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7306-1208 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
‘They cost me less pains than tragedy does’
Although less and fewer are supposed to have their particular domains for the expression of quantification, this has not always been the case in the history of English. These two quantifiers coexisted in free variation – irrespective of the typology of the noun – down to the eighteenth century. While some scholars have believed that the advent of prescriptivism seemed to specialise their distribution – with fewer being used exclusively for count …
“You spelled ‘spelt’ wrong”
The expression of the past tense in English has been plagued with oddities throughout its history. One example is the morphological duality in verbs like dream, burn and spell. Today, their preterite and participial forms may feature two morphemes, either the regular -ed or the irregular -t. In Present-day English, preference for one paradigm over the other seems to be determined on the grounds of diatopic variation, with American English favouri…
‘The night before beg'd ye queens's pardon and his brother's’
The apostrophe was introduced into the English orthographic system by the mid sixteenth century as a printer's mark especially designed ‘for the eye rather than for the ear’ (Sklar 1976: 175; Little 1986: 15). Whereas the uses of the apostrophe today are limited to the Saxon genitive construction ( the woman's book ), to verbal contractions ( you'll ‘you will’ or you're ‘you are’) and to other formulaic expressions ( o'clock ), its early uses als…
Order out of Chaos
The suffix -ful, in words like hopeful and wonderful, originates in the adjective full, from whence it seems to have undergone grammaticalisation. In Present-day English, the morphological differences between these two items are marked by their orthography: in addition to losing its free-word status, -ful also simplified the digraph to . Although the current orthographic configuration of these items reveals the interplay between spelling and morp…
Suffixes in Competition
This paper presents a corpus-driven analysis of the linguistic competition between the suffixes -our/-or in Early Modern English. It is conceived as a state of the art to provide an explanation of the development and distribution of these competing suffixes in Early Modern English. The study is based on the distribution of the most common set of words with alternative spellings in the period to investigate the development and the standardisation …
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Suffixes in Competition
This paper presents a corpus-driven analysis of the linguistic competition between the suffixes -our/-or in Early Modern English. It is conceived as a state of the art to provide an explanation of the development and distribution of these competing suffixes in Early Modern English. The study is based on the distribution of the most common set of words with alternative spellings in the period to investigate the development and the standardisation …
Order out of Chaos
The suffix -ful, in words like hopeful and wonderful, originates in the adjective full, from whence it seems to have undergone grammaticalisation. In Present-day English, the morphological differences between these two items are marked by their orthography: in addition to losing its free-word status, -ful also simplified the digraph to . Although the current orthographic configuration of these items reveals the interplay between spelling and morp…
‘The night before beg'd ye queens's pardon and his brother's’
The apostrophe was introduced into the English orthographic system by the mid sixteenth century as a printer's mark especially designed ‘for the eye rather than for the ear’ (Sklar 1976: 175; Little 1986: 15). Whereas the uses of the apostrophe today are limited to the Saxon genitive construction ( the woman's book ), to verbal contractions ( you'll ‘you will’ or you're ‘you are’) and to other formulaic expressions ( o'clock ), its early uses als…
‘They cost me less pains than tragedy does’
Although less and fewer are supposed to have their particular domains for the expression of quantification, this has not always been the case in the history of English. These two quantifiers coexisted in free variation – irrespective of the typology of the noun – down to the eighteenth century. While some scholars have believed that the advent of prescriptivism seemed to specialise their distribution – with fewer being used exclusively for count …
“You spelled ‘spelt’ wrong”
The expression of the past tense in English has been plagued with oddities throughout its history. One example is the morphological duality in verbs like dream, burn and spell. Today, their preterite and participial forms may feature two morphemes, either the regular -ed or the irregular -t. In Present-day English, preference for one paradigm over the other seems to be determined on the grounds of diatopic variation, with American English favouri…
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