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Henrik Kaatari
Senior lecturer
Research subject: English
Email: henrik.kaatari@hig.se
Telephone: +46 26-64 85 00 (växel)
Henrik Kaatari’s research is in corpus linguistics and language learning with a special focus on grammatical variation, syntactic complexity and the intersection between formality and linguistic complexity. Recently, his research has mainly focused on lexical and syntactic variation in the writing of Swedish learners of English.
CURRENT RESEARCH
Henrik Kaatari is currently running a corpus compilation project (SLEC; the Swedish Learner English Corpus). The aim of the project is to build a new national corpus of texts written by Swedish learners of English in high school.
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Scholarly articles, refereed
Larsson, T., Kaatari, H., Dixon, T. & Egbert, J. (2023). Examining novice writers’ perceptions of formality. Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes, 4 (1), 29-55. 10.1075/jerpp.22010.lar
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Kaatari, H., Larsson, T., Wang, Y., Acikara-Eickhoff, S. & Sundqvist, P. (2023). Exploring the effects of target-language extramural activities on students’ written production. Journal of second language writing, 62. 10.1016/j.jslw.2023.101062
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Dixon, T., Egbert, J., Larsson, T., Kaatari, H. & Hanks, E. (2023). Toward an empirical understanding of formality: Triangulating corpus data with teacher perceptions. English for specific purposes (New York, N.Y.), 71, 161-177. 10.1016/j.esp.2023.04.006
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Wang, Y. & Kaatari, H. (2021). <em>Let’s say</em>: Phraseological patterns of SAY in academic ELF communication<em></em>. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 54. 10.1016/j.jeap.2021.101046
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Larsson, T. & Kaatari, H. (2020). Syntactic complexity across registers : Investigating (in)formality in second-language writing. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 45. 10.1016/j.jeap.2020.100850
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Larsson, T. & Kaatari, H. (2019). Extraposition in learner and expert writing : Exploring (in)formality and the impact of register. International Journal of Learner Corpus Research, 5 (1), 33-62. 10.1075/ijlcr.17014.lar
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Kaatari, H. & Larsson, T. (2019). Using the BNC and the Spoken BNC2014 to Study the Syntactic Development of <em>I Think</em> and <em>I’m Sure</em>. English Studies : A Journal of English Language, 100 (6), 710-727. 10.1080/0013838X.2018.1558702
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Kaatari, H. (2018). On the syntactic status of <em>I'm sure</em>. Corpora, 13 (1), 1-25. 10.3366/cor.2018.0134
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Kaatari, H. (2016). Variation across two dimensions : Testing the Complexity Principle and the Uniform Information Density Principle on adjectival data. English Language and Linguistics, 20 (3), 533-558. 10.1017/S1360674316000344
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Doctoral thesis
Kaatari, H. (2017). Adjectives complemented by <em>that</em>- and <em>to</em>-clauses : Exploring semantico-syntactic relationships and genre variation. Diss. (sammanfattning), 2017. Uppsala: Department of English. 76 p.
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Book chapters
Garretson, G. & Kaatari, H. (2014). The computer as research assistant : A new approach to variable patterns in corpus data. Recent advances in corpus linguistics : Developing and exploiting corpora. Amsterdam: Rodopi. P. 55-80.
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Conference papers
Thomas, K. & Kaatari, H. (2023). Agreement in analytical and holistic assessment of the English 5 National Test in writing,focusing on the criterion of variation: An interview study of experienced teachers’ assessment. .
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Kaatari, H., Wang, Y. & Larsson, T. (2023). Introducing the Swedish Learner English Corpus. .
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Kaatari, H., Larsson, T., Wang, Y., Acikara Eickhoff, S. & Sundqvist, P. (2023). On the impact of extramural activities on L2 student writing. .
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Kaatari, H., Larsson, T., Wang, Y., Acikara Eickhoff, S. & Sundqvist, P. (2023). The effect of English extramural activities on L2 students’ lexical diversity and grammatical complexity. .
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Larsson, T., Kaatari, H., Dixon, T. & Egbert, J. (2022). Examining students’ perceptions of formality in academic writing. .
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Kaatari, H., Larsson, T., Wang, Y., Acikara Eickhoff, S. & Sundqvist, P. (2022). Exploring the effect of target-language extramural activities on students’ written production. .
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Dixon, T., Egbert, J., Larsson, T. & Kaatari, H. (2022). What is formality?: Triangulating corpus data with teacher perceptions. .
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Larsson, T. & Kaatari, H. (2019). Syntactic complexity across registers : Investigating (in)formality in student writing. LANGUAGE IN TIME TIME IN LANGUAGE - ICAME40 : Book of abstracts.
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Larsson, T. & Kaatari, H. (2019). Syntactic complexity in L2 writing : Testing different measures across levels of formality. EUROCALL Conference 2019 “CALL and Complexity” : Book of abstracts. Louvain-la-Neuve: European Association of Computer Assisted Language Learning. P. 60-.
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Kaatari, H. & Larsson, T. (2018). Using the BNC and the Spoken BNC2014 to study the syntactic development of <em>I think</em> and <em>I’m sure</em>. .
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Kaatari, H. (2013). Adjectival complementation: Genre variation and meaning. .
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Kaatari, H. (2013). Classifying fictional texts in the BNC using bibliographical information. .
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Kaatari, H. (2013). Syntactic reduction and redundancy: Variation between <em>that</em>-mentioning and <em>that</em>-omission in English complement clauses. .
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Kaatari, H. (2013). Variation across three dimensions: Testing the complexity principle on adjectival data. .
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Kaatari, H. (2012). Sampling the BNC – creating a randomly sampled subcorpus for comparing multiple genres. .
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Book reviews
Kaatari, H. (2013). Review of An Van linden : <em>Modal adjectives: English deontic and evaluative constructions in synchrony and diachrony</em> (Topics in English Linguistics 75). Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2012. ICAME Journal/International Computer Archive of Modern English. P. 261-265.
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Kaatari, H. (2013). Review of Juhani Rudanko: <em>Changes in Complementation in British and American English</em> : <em>Corpus-based Studies on Non-finite Complements in Recent English</em>. Taylor & Francis. Studia Neophilologica. Taylor & Francis. P. 241-244. 10.1080/00393274.2013.853260
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Kaatari, H. (2012). Review of Ilka Mindt: <em>Adjective complementation: An empirical analysis of adjectives followed by </em>that<em>–clauses</em> (Studies in Corpus Linguistics 42). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2011. Taylor & Francis. Studia Neophilologica. Taylor & Francis. P. 120-124. 10.1080/00393274.2012.667251
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