Manfred Krug

From a one-dimensional hierarchy to a multidimensional space of scientific english: the relationship between a discipline’s place in the hierarchy of the sciences and its use of grammatical structures

Abstract The idea of a Hierarchy of the Sciences (HoS), first proposed by Auguste Comte in the 19th Century, argues that scientific disciplines can be ordered in a hierarchy of complexity, with the inorganic sciences (Astronomy, Physics) being the least complex and the organic sc...

The morpho-syntax of Standard Scottish English

Abstract With empirical research on Standard Scottish English showing a bias towards phonology, the aim of the current study is to contribute to the morpho-syntactic documentation of this variety. Relying on Standard Southern British English for comparison, we concentrate on four...