Grammatical Features of Structural Elaboration and Compression Common in Advanced ESL Academic Writing
The present study replicated the research framework of a previous study (Biber, Gray, & Poonpon, 2011) that identifies the grammatical complexity of L1 professional academic prose as strongly favoring a dense use of phrasal nominal modifiers such as prepositional phrases as postmodifiers, attrib...
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BYU ScholarsArchive
2015
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| Online Access: | https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5286 https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6285&context=etd |