Abstract This article reports on the quantitative corpus-based investigation into form-function interplay of English detached adjectival construction with an explicit subject. Taking Usage-based Construction Grammar as its theoretical framework, this paper investigates patterns attraction lexical items that appear in main slots grammatical construction. The data obtained substantiate constructi...

The purpose of the current study was to examine frequently used boosters in academic articles written by Native (NESs) and Non-native (NNESs) Speakers English (Turkish researchers) field Language Teaching. Investigating whether differences exist use these markers between NESs NNESs’ another aim study. Within this purpose, data collected from one hundred (NESs= 50, NNESs= 50 articles) published ...