Rate My Professor Mark Davies

Davies has authored or co-authored more than 80 publications, including major books such as A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish: Core Vocabulary for Learners (Routledge, 2005; second revised and expanded edition, 2017, with Kathy Hayward Davies), A Frequency Dictionary of American English: Word Sketches, Collocates, and Thematic Lists (Routledge, 2010, with Dee Gardner), A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese: Core Vocabulary for Learners (Routledge, 2007, with Ana Maria Raposo Preto-Bay), and Corpus linguistic applications: current studies, new directions (Rodopi, 2009, co-editor with Stefan Gries and Stefanie Wulff). Key articles include "The Coronavirus Corpus: Design, construction, and use" (International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 2021), "The TV and Movies corpora: design, construction, and use" (2020), "The advantages and challenges of ‘big data’: Insights from the 14 billion word iWeb corpus" (Linguistic Research, 2019, with Jong-Bok Kim), and "Historical shifts with the into-causative construction in American English" (Linguistics, 2019, with Jong-Bok Kim). His work has garnered significant recognition, including the Karl G. Maeser Research and Creative Arts Award (BYU, 2015–2016), Creative Works Award (BYU, 2017), and Humanities Center Fellowship (BYU, 2013–2017), along with numerous earlier awards and grants from Illinois State University. Davies' corpora have had a profound impact on linguistics, language teaching, lexicography, and even legal analysis.