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Xinyue Yao

14 works· latest 2025· 2 institutionscluster: provisionalORCID 0000-0002-6939-5165

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The present perfect in world Englishes2012 · 72 citations
Modals and quasi-modals in New Englishes2012 · 51 citations
Colloquialisation and the evolution of Australian English2018 · 50 citations
Colloquial features in Word Englishes2013 · 48 citations
Modality in Philippine English2014 · 45 citations

Works

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Non-standard morphosyntactic variation in L2 English varieties world-wide: a corpus-based study

Lingua·2025·4 authors·Open access

3citations

Diachronic register change

4citations

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

Journal of English Linguistics·2019·2 authors·Open access

33citations

Colloquialisation and the evolution of Australian English

English World-Wide A Journal of Varieties of English·2018·2 authors·Open access

50citations

Exploring grammatical colloquialisation in non-native English: a case study of Philippine English

English Language and Linguistics·2017·2 authors

7citations

Cleft constructions in Hong Kong English

English World-Wide A Journal of Varieties of English·2016·1 author

44citations

The evolution of the “hot news” perfect in English

Journal of Historical Pragmatics·2016·1 author

23citations

Grammatical Change in the Verb Phrase in Australian English: A Corpus-based Study

Australian Journal of Linguistics·2014·2 authors

14citations

Modality in Philippine English

Journal of English Linguistics·2014·3 authors

45citations

Relative clauses in Philippine English: a diachronic perspective

BRILL eBooks·2014·3 authors·chapter

13citations

Colloquial features in Word Englishes

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics·2013·2 authors

48citations

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

Corpora·2013·2 authors

38citations

The present perfect in world Englishes

World Englishes·2012·2 authors

72citations

Modals and quasi-modals in New Englishes

Varieties of English around the world. General series·2012·2 authors·chapter

51citations