The paper is an attempt at looking at ELF texts produced by universities as examples of hybrids that can be characterized with respect to their counterparts produced in national, native-English contexts. The approach adopted in the analysis. In particular, thu study looks at some features of comparable sets of texts written in ELF and in two national varieties of English with a view to constructing their respective profiles at the morpho-syntactic level and relating this profile to the way the texts realize their main, shared function.
