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  1. The Present Perfect and the Preterite in Late Modern and Contemporary English

    Article • February 2024, John Benjamins

    Dr Xinyue Yao

  2. Diachronic register change

    Article • Register Studies, June 2021, John Benjamins

    Dr Xinyue Yao

  3. Predicting translation behaviorsby using Hidden Markov Model

    Article • Translation Cognition & Behavior, May 2020, John Benjamins

    Dr Xinyue Yao

  4. Developments in Australian, British, and American English Grammar from 1931 to 2006: An Aggregate, Comparative Approach to Dialectal Variation and Change

    Article • Journal of English Linguistics, April 2019, SAGE Publications

    Dr Xinyue Yao

  5. Colloquialisation and the evolution of Australian English

    Article • English World-Wide A Journal of Varieties of English, November 2018, John Benjamins

    Dr Xinyue Yao

  6. Cleft constructions in Hong Kong English

    Article • English World-Wide A Journal of Varieties of English, June 2016, John Benjamins

    Dr Xinyue Yao

  7. The evolution of the “hot news” perfect in English

    Article • Journal of Historical Pragmatics, June 2016, John Benjamins

    Dr Xinyue Yao

  8. Grammatical variation in British English dialects: A study in corpus-based dialectometry. Benedikt Szmrecsanyi. 2012. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, xvii + 211.

    Article • World Englishes, February 2016, Wiley

    Dr Xinyue Yao

  9. Developments in the Use of the English Present Perfect

    Article • Journal of English Linguistics, September 2014, SAGE Publications

    Dr Xinyue Yao

  10. Colloquial features in Word Englishes

    Article • International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, December 2013, John Benjamins

    Dr Xinyue Yao

  11. Recent change in non-present perfect constructions in British and American English

    Article • Corpora, May 2013, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr Xinyue Yao