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English Studies from Archives to Prospects English Studies from Archives to Prospects: Volume 2 – Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Edited by Irena Zovko Dinković and Jelena Mihaljević Djigunović English Studies from Archives to Prospects: Volume 2 – Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Edited by Irena Zovko Dinković and Jelena Mihaljević Djigunović This book first published 2016 Cambridge Scholars Publishing Lady Stephenson Library, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2PA, UK British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Copyright © 2016 by Irena Zovko Dinković, Jelena Mihaljević Djigunović and contributors All rights for this book reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. ISBN (10): 1-4438-9076-6 ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-9076-2 TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface...................................................................................................... viii Part I. New Prospects for Old Issues Chapter One ................................................................................................. 2 An Epistemological Approach to English Gender from a Grammar-Based Perspective Laure Gardelle Chapter Two .............................................................................................. 19 Negative Polarity Items in Croatian: A Case of Syntactic Agreement Irena Zovko Dinkoviü Chapter Three ............................................................................................ 37 Paucal Quantifiers and the Degree of Grammaticalization Kamiah Arnaut-Karoviü Chapter Four .............................................................................................. 57 Going Productive with Metonymy Mario Brdar Chapter Five .............................................................................................. 73 Counting Sheep and Then Some: A Multifactorial Look at Instantiations of Animal Metaphor Goran Miliü Chapter Six ................................................................................................ 95 English as a Lingua Franca in Croatia: Attitudes and Pronunciation Višnja Josipoviü-Smojver and Mateusz-Milan Stanojeviü Part II. Signs of Our Time Chapter Seven.......................................................................................... 114 The Native Speaker: A Glance at Some Issues in the Debate Damir Kalogjera and Anÿel Starþeviü vi Table of Contents Chapter Eight ........................................................................................... 149 Translating Languages I Don’t Know Svend Erik Larsen Chapter Nine............................................................................................ 165 Stocktaking and Prospects: Five Years of the Translation Track in the University of Zagreb’s Department of English Nataša Pavloviü Chapter Ten ............................................................................................. 182 Prospecting in the Archives: Finding Common Features in English and Croatian Correspondence Alexander D. Hoyt Chapter Eleven ........................................................................................ 194 Comparative Inclusion and Treatment of Scientific and Technical Vocabulary in OALD3, OALD4 and OALD8 Marjeta Vrbinc Chapter Twelve ....................................................................................... 206 Lexicographic Treatment of Adverbs in “A” in British Monolingual Learner’s Dictionaries Alenka Vrbinc Part III. Processes and Products of Language Acquisition and Language Teaching Chapter Thirteen ...................................................................................... 220 Lo