The Department of English in Lund: Working Papers in Linguistics is an annual volume produced by the English Department at Lund University in Sweden. Its main aim is to publicize research being carried out by staff and post-graduate students in the department, but we are also pleased to include contributions from members of neighbouring departments and universities. Exchanges with similar publications are welcome. All articles are freely downloadable from the web.Table of ContentsHannele Diehl 'I quite fancy this': 'uite' as a degree modifier of verbs in written British EnglishHenrik GyllstadTesting L2 Vocabulary: current test formats in English as a L2 used at Swedish universitiesFredrik HeinatA note on the categorization of nominal expressionsCarita ParadisTowards a theory of lexical meaning as ontologies and construalsPhilip ShawA longitudinal corpus of Swedish university students' written English, some problems and some resultsJonathan WhiteSyntactic autonomy and result clauses