Besides as a connective

Abstract

This paper shows, on the basis of a comparison of learner corpus data with written and spoken native corpus data, that learners tend to use spoken features when organising their academic writing. Possible explanations are offered to account for this problem of register confusion, including L1 transfer, L2 instruction and developmental factors. Suggestions are also made to help learners become more aware of register variation.

X Never Mind Y: un enfoque cognitivo dentro del contexto de las construcciones de alternancia complementaria

“…Unlike previous studies which focus their attention on a particular marker and investigate the coherence relations associated with it (Fillmore et al, 1988;Hannay et al, 2014;Noordman, 2001), Iza Erviti (2015Erviti ( , 2021 has identified and studied the family of complementary alternation discourse constructions, providing a fine-grained description of its members. This constructional family spans a range of configurations containing connectors such as let alone, much less, even less, never mind, not to mention, and to say nothing of, among others.…”

An exploratory study of complementary contrastive discourse constructions in English

“…However, these authors study the construction in isolation and do not take into account other constructions with a related meaning. Similarly, from a functionalist perspective, Hannay, Martínez Caro, and Mackenzie (2014) offer an analysis of the connective besides, but still fail to explore its interconnections with other semantically-related markers. This weakness in the study of explicit discourse constructions has been pointed out by other authors such as Mairal and Ruiz de Mendoza (2009), and Ruiz de Mendoza and Gómez González (2014).…”