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Language users as creatures of habit: A corpus-based analysis of persistence in spoken English
- Benedikt Szmrecsanyi
- Linguistics
- 2005
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…
Dative and genitive variability in Late Modern English: Exploring cross-constructional variation and change
- C. Wolk, J. Bresnan, Anette Rosenbach, Benedikt Szmrecsanyi
- Linguistics
- 2013
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…
Recent changes in the function and frequency of Standard English genitive constructions: a multivariate analysis of tagged corpora
- L. Hinrichs, Benedikt Szmrecsanyi
- LinguisticsEnglish Language and Linguistics
- 1 November 2007
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.…
Morphosyntactic persistence in spoken English: a corpus study at the intersection of variationist sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and discourse analysis
- Benedikt Szmrecsanyi
- Linguistics
- 2006
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…
On operationalizing syntactic complexity
- Benedikt Szmrecsanyi
- Computer Science
- 2004
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Global synopsis: morphological and syntactic variation in English
- B. Kortmann, Benedikt Szmrecsanyi
- LinguisticsA Handbook of Varieties of English
- 31 December 2020
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…
A statistical method for the identification and aggregation of regional linguistic variation
- A. Rompaey, T. Ruette, Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, Joeri Theelen, Emily Waibel, E. Zenner
- Sociology
- 2011
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
- Benedikt Szmrecsanyi
- LinguisticsLanguage Variation and Change
- 1 October 2009
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…
Be Going to Versus Will/Shall
- Benedikt Szmrecsanyi
- Linguistics
- 1 December 2003
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…
Animacy in early New Zealand English
- M. Hundt, Benedikt Szmrecsanyi
- Linguistics
- 2012
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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