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Language users as creatures of habit: A corpus-based analysis of persistence in spoken English
Abstract For different reasons, speakers re-use recently used or heard linguistic options whenever they can, a tendency which is referred to as ‘persistence’ in the present paper. The phenomenon has…
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Dative and genitive variability in Late Modern English: Exploring cross-constructional variation and change
We present a cross-constructional approach to the history of the genitive alternation and the dative alternation in Late Modern English (AD 1650 to AD 1999), drawing on richly annotated datasets and…
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Recent changes in the function and frequency of Standard English genitive constructions: a multivariate analysis of tagged corpora
This study of present-day English genitive variation is based on all interchangeable instances of s- and of-genitives from the ‘Reportage’ and ‘Editorial’ categories of the ‘Brown family’ of corpora.…
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Morphosyntactic persistence in spoken English: a corpus study at the intersection of variationist sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and discourse analysis
Language users are creatures of habit with a tendency to re-use linguistic material that they have produced or heard before. In other words, linguistic patterns and tokens, once used, persist in…
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On operationalizing syntactic complexity
TLDR
An experiment comparing three measures of syntactic complexity — node counts, word counts, and a so-called ‘Index of Syntactic Complexity’ — with regard to their accuracy and applicability concludes that since node counts are in most cases unreasonably resource demanding to conduct, researchers can feel safe in using the measure that is most economically to conduct , word counts.
Global synopsis: morphological and syntactic variation in English
Compared with the regional synopses, it is in this chapter that we shall adopt a truly bird’s-eye, or even satellite, view at morphosyntactic variation across the non-standard varieties in the…
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A statistical method for the identification and aggregation of regional linguistic variation
This paper introduces a method for the analysis of regional linguistic variation. The method identifies individual and common patterns of spatial clustering in a set of linguistic variables measured…
Typological parameters of intralingual variability: Grammatical analyticity versus syntheticity in varieties of English
Abstract Drawing on terminology, concepts, and ideas developed in quantitative morphological typology, the present study takes an exclusive interest in the coding of grammatical information. It…
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Be Going to Versus Will/Shall
This study offers a novel account for the variation between the two major syntactic options to express futurity in English, BE GOING TO and WILL/SHALL. The focus of attention, unlike in many previous…
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Animacy in early New Zealand English
The literature suggests that animacy effects in present-day spoken New Zealand English (NZE) differ from animacy effects in other varieties of English. We seek to determine if such differences have a…
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