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- Olofsson, Arne, 1943, et al.
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Små ord, stora stötestenar. Om engelskans artikelsystem
- 2010
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In: På tal om språk. En introduktion till språkforskning för studenter. - Göteborg : University of Gothenburg. - 9789163370540 ; , s. 61-72
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The chapter has two distinct parts, one (by Olofsson) presenting general information about the English definite and indefinite articles, past and present, the second (by Ohlander) presenting an investigation into the influence of students' first language on their ability to handle the English article system.
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- Olofsson, Arne, 1943
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English proficiency testing - alla Bolognese
- 2010
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In: Moderna Språk. - 2000-3560. ; 104:2, s. 1-8
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The article describes the reform of the Gothenburg University standardized English vocabulary test, going from a bilingual to an all-English format.
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- Olofsson, Arne, 1943
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Existential there and catenative concord. Evidence from the British National Corpus
- 2011
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In: Nordic Journal of English Studies (NJES). - 1654-6970. ; 10:1, s. 29-47
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- On the basis of a 100-million word corpus of British English, the article demonstrates that it is fairly common in the production of native speakers to use the singular form "seems" after "existential there" even when the notional subject is a plural, more so in spoken than in written production. The near-synonym "appear" as a catenative verb shows the same tendency, though less strongly. The results raise pedagogical questions as to the assessment of the performance of learners in the area in question.
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- Olofsson, Arne, 1943
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Factual fumbles. Some examples of encyclopaedic shortcomings in English dictionaries for learners.
- 2013
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In: Language, football and all that jazz : a festschrift for Sölve Ohlander/ Gunnar Bergh, Rhonwen Bowen & Mats Mobärg (eds.). - Göteborg : University of Gothenburg. - 9789173467582 ; , s. 381-392
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The article identifies and discusses three cases of inadequate or factually wrong definitions in dictionaries of English for learners. It deplores the fact that factual errors tend to live on through allegedly revised editions, even in cases where the wording has been retouched.
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- Olofsson, Arne, 1943
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Prepositional following revisited
- 2011
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In: Studia neophilologica. - 1651-2308 .- 0039-3274. ; 83:1, s. 5-20
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The article is a follow-up of the author´s 1990 corpus-based study of the same phenomenon, viz. the grammaticalization of the participle "following" to a preposition, synonymous with "after". The main findings are (1) that the usage was well established earlier than has previously been noted, (2) that the frequency of prepositional "following" in British English has more or less quadrupled during the last 50 years, and (3) that automated tagging is far from reliable when it comes to items in the process of grammaticalization.
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- Olofsson, Arne, 1943
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Språkgåtan tidigare knäckt
- 2013
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In: Språktidningen. - 1654-5028. ; 2013:3
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Journal article (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This short contribution refutes the claim published in a previous issue that the author in question was the first to discover the origin of the dot of the letter i.
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- Olofsson, Arne, 1943
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Tick (Ixodes ricinus) – a lexicographically endangered species
- 2013
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In: LMS-Lingua. - 0023-6330. ; 2013:1, s. 14-16
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Journal article (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The article gives an example of encyclopaedic shortcomings in English learners' dictionaries, based on the treatment of the zoological sense of the noun "tick".
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