Grants Funded
1988The linguistic evolution of written styles in Somali. Faculty Research and Innovation Fund, U.S.C. $11,007.
1988 - 1991 Synchronic and diachronic relations among spoken and written varieties in Somali. National Science Foundation. $89,106.(#BNS-8811720).
1991 - 1992 Extension to Synchronic and diachronic relations among spoken and written varieties in Somali. National Science Foundation. $14,400.(#BNS-9096258).
1990 - 1993 Diachronic relations among speech-based and written registers in English. National Science Foundation. $162,408. (#BNS-9010893; E. Finegan co-PI).
1991 - 1992 Organized Research Grant, NAU -- Supplement to NSF grant on Diachronic Relations in English. $4,500.
1991 - 1993 Organized Research Grant, NAU -- Supplement to NSF grant on Diachronic Relations in English. $8,000.
1995 - 1996 Organized Research Grant, NAU -- Corpus-based lexical knowledge acquisition. $7,000.
1996Academic Computer Services Steering Committee Grant, NAU -- Lab for English Language Instruction and Analysis. $10,770 (+ A&S College matching funds; F. Stoller co-PI).
1993 - 1996Computational tagging and grammatical analysis of the Longman/Lancaster English Language Corpus. Longman Group UK. $262,500.
1996 - 1998Extension to Computational tagging and grammatical analysis of the Longman/Lancaster English Language Corpus. Longman Group UK. $18,000.
1998 - 2000Construction and Grammatical Tagging of the TOEFL 2000 Spoken and Written Academic Language Corpus. Educational Testing Services. $400,000.
2000 - 2002Linguistic analysis of the T2K-SWAL Corpus to develop diagnostic tools for listening and reading texts. Educational Testing Services. $150,000.
2002 - 2005Multi-dimensional analysis of synchronic and diachronic register variation in Spanish. National Science Foundation. $150,000. (#BCS-0214438; M. Davies co-PI).
2007 - 2008 The effectiveness of feedback for individual writing development: A meta-analysis. Educational Testing Services. $30,000.
2010 - 2010 Collocational analysis of the Pearson International Corpus of Academic English. Longman/Pearson. $20,000.
2009 - 2011 Discourse characteristics of writing and speaking responses on the TOEFL iBT. Educational Testing Services. $120,000.
2012 - 2015A Linguistic Taxonomy of English Web Registers National Science Foundation. $332,000. (M. Davies co-PI).
1988The linguistic evolution of written styles in Somali. Faculty Research and Innovation Fund, U.S.C. $11,007.
1988 - 1991 Synchronic and diachronic relations among spoken and written varieties in Somali. National Science Foundation. $89,106.(#BNS-8811720).
1991 - 1992 Extension to Synchronic and diachronic relations among spoken and written varieties in Somali. National Science Foundation. $14,400.(#BNS-9096258).
1990 - 1993 Diachronic relations among speech-based and written registers in English. National Science Foundation. $162,408. (#BNS-9010893; E. Finegan co-PI).
1991 - 1992 Organized Research Grant, NAU -- Supplement to NSF grant on Diachronic Relations in English. $4,500.
1991 - 1993 Organized Research Grant, NAU -- Supplement to NSF grant on Diachronic Relations in English. $8,000.
1995 - 1996 Organized Research Grant, NAU -- Corpus-based lexical knowledge acquisition. $7,000.
1996Academic Computer Services Steering Committee Grant, NAU -- Lab for English Language Instruction and Analysis. $10,770 (+ A&S College matching funds; F. Stoller co-PI).
1993 - 1996Computational tagging and grammatical analysis of the Longman/Lancaster English Language Corpus. Longman Group UK. $262,500.
1996 - 1998Extension to Computational tagging and grammatical analysis of the Longman/Lancaster English Language Corpus. Longman Group UK. $18,000.
1998 - 2000Construction and Grammatical Tagging of the TOEFL 2000 Spoken and Written Academic Language Corpus. Educational Testing Services. $400,000.
2000 - 2002Linguistic analysis of the T2K-SWAL Corpus to develop diagnostic tools for listening and reading texts. Educational Testing Services. $150,000.
2002 - 2005Multi-dimensional analysis of synchronic and diachronic register variation in Spanish. National Science Foundation. $150,000. (#BCS-0214438; M. Davies co-PI).
2007 - 2008 The effectiveness of feedback for individual writing development: A meta-analysis. Educational Testing Services. $30,000.
2010 - 2010 Collocational analysis of the Pearson International Corpus of Academic English. Longman/Pearson. $20,000.
2009 - 2011 Discourse characteristics of writing and speaking responses on the TOEFL iBT. Educational Testing Services. $120,000.
2012 - 2015A Linguistic Taxonomy of English Web Registers National Science Foundation. $332,000. (M. Davies co-PI).