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) model, and used it for studies aiming at bridging the paradigm gap between learner and second language varieties. Our objective is to chart new elf data and thereby broaden the scope of written elf corpora using what we call a bottom-up approach. We illustrate that, apart from the academic domain
of English. The lack of analyses of esl varieties with respect to sla was identified as a ‘paradigm gap’ early on by Sridhar and Sridhar (1982) . The very basic similarity between esl and efl varieties lies in their origin as learner varieties. Both varieties may show features that develop
(Thums 295–296). The Living Language In Romantic poetry and the vitalist study of nature, the paradigm gap is filled by means of subjunctive thinking which is open to novelty and provisionality and which regards theory as orienting action. 9 Within the new mythology, this subjunctive thinking is
articles. The semantic considerations I have discussed show that the portmanteau forms fill a paradigm gap. The PP category itself, in fact, has been problematic throughout the history of generative syntax, quite apart from the probem at hand: while predicted to exist by systems that classify lexical