I den Forskningspolitiska propositionen Kunskap i samverkan – för samhällets utmaningar och stärkt konkurrenskraft 2016 meddelade regeringen att Malmö högskola ska benämnas Malmö universitet från och med den 1 januari 2018. Detta fördjupade underlag ger en bild av väsentliga delar Malmö högskolas historia, beskriver och analyserar dagens verksamhet och redogör för lärosätets ambitioner och planer för framtiden. Sex tematiska ”trådar” löper genom texten och även genom Malmö högskolas historia: Breddat deltagande, Samhällsengagemang, Samverkan, samproduktion och innovation, Flervetenskap, Kvalitetstänkande och Globalt engagemang. Det framgår tydligt att den ursprungliga inriktning som fanns vid högskolans bildande 1998 lever vidare och att en gedigen grund har skapats för att Malmö universitet ska kunna verka som ett nyskapande och framåtsyftande lärosäte i det svenska och globala universitetslandskapet och skapa, dela och nyttiggöra kunskap som kan bidra till en hållbar samhällsutveckling lokalt och globalt. Förutom till regeringen vänder sig denna skrift till utbildningspolitiker, den svenska högskole- och universitetsvärlden, Malmö högskolas/universitets samarbetspartner, medarbetare vid Malmö högskola/ universitet och en intresserad allmänhet.

In this stimulating collection of papers, leading researchers from Europe and North America demonstrate the theoretical and methodological importance of corpus studies of phraseology and show how data-intensive case studies provide new perspectives on language use. One of the main theoretical findings of recent linguistics is that phraseology is central to language organization. The authors show how software and statistical techniques can reveal phraseological patterns in different text types – literary, academic and commercial – and also typical paths of language change across the last 200 years. These patterns are revealed only when computational methods are applied to corpora consisting of hundreds of millions of running words, collected from thousands of authentic texts. A major feature of the book is its critical comparison and evaluation of different quantitative and statistical tools, which readers can use for their own empirical work. Originally published in International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, Vol. 18:1 (2013).

This study discusses an adverbial pattern which has so far been largely overlooked, namely ADV1 and ADV1, as in again and again, on and on and over and over. The paper is primarily based on the Corpus of Historical American English (COHA) and the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). The data show that these patterns follow typical paths of change, such as a movement towards more abstract meanings (metaphorization; over and over increasingly referring to repetition rather than to physical motion), lexicalization (e.g. up and up being used as a noun with idiosyncratic meaning in on the up and up), subjectification (e.g. on and on expressing negative connotations), iconic variation (again and again and again referring to multiple repetitions), simplification (loss of again after over and over), and the development of discourse functions (and on and on meaning “and so on”).

This study discusses an adverbial pattern which has so far been largely over- looked, namely ADV1 and ADV1, as in again and again, on and on and over and over. The paper is primarily based on the Corpus of Historical American English (COHA) and the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). The data show that these patterns follow typical paths of change, such as a movement towards more abstract meanings (metaphorization; over and over increasingly referring to repetition rather than to physical motion), lexicaliza- tion (e.g. up and up being used as a noun with idiosyncratic meaning in on the up and up), subjectification (e.g. on and on expressing negative connotations), iconic variation (again and again and again referring to multiple repetitions), simplification (loss of again after over and over), and the development of dis- course functions (and on and on meaning “and so on”)

This book is the first of the two-volume collection of papers on formulaic language. The collection is among the first ones in the field. The book draws attention to the ritualized, repetitive side of language, which to some estimates make up over 50% of spoken and written text. While in the linguistic literature, the creative and innovative aspects of language have been amply highlighted, conventionalized, pre-fabricated, “off-the-shelf” expressions have been paid less attention – an imbalance that this book attempts to remedy. The first of the two volumes addresses the very concept of formulaic language and provides studies that explore the grammatical and semantic properties of formulae, their stylistic distribution within languages, and their evolution in the course of language history. Since most of the papers are readily accessible to readers with only basic familiarity with linguistics, besides being a resource in linguistic research, the book may be used in courses on discourse structure, pragmatics, semantics, language acquisition, and syntax, as well as being a resource in linguistic research.

In this study all n-grams including the lemma hand were automatically retrieved from the British National Corpus and then formulaic sequences were manually distinguished. A special focus was given to at hand, in hand, on hand and to hand which occurred with reference to humans, animals, concrete inanimate items and abstract items. The abstract meanings were metonymic and metaphorical mappings of literal body part meanings onto more abstract meanings. The data indicate that these sequences are the result of a lexicalization process in which they are developing towards univerbation. They seem to be processed holistically without regard to the meaning of the preposition, which is supported by the fact that they are now occurring written solidly in informal registers.

Review of Marianne Hundt, Nadja Nesselhauf and Carolin Biewer (eds.): Corpus linguistics and the web. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi. 2007. ISBN 978-90-420-2128-0.