book projects in progress

• Auer, Peter, Martin Hilpert, Anja Stukenbrock & Benedikt Szmrecsanyi (eds) (in preparation). Space in language and linguistics: geographical, interactional, and cognitive perspectives (working title) (Series: Linguae et Litterae: Publications of the School of Language and Literature, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies). Berlin: de Gruyter.

• Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt  & Bernhard Wälchli (eds) (in preparation). Aggregating dialectology and typology: linguistic variation in text and speech, within and across languages (working title) (Series: Linguae et Litterae: Publications of the School of Language and Literature, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies). Berlin: de Gruyter.

submitted & forthcoming (comments welcome!)

• Siegel, Jeff, Benedikt Szmrecsanyi & Bernd Kortmann (submitted). "Measuring analyticity and syntheticity in creoles".

• Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt (submitted). "About text frequencies in historical linguistics".
  [manuscript (.pdf)]

• Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt (submitted). "Forests, trees, corpora, and dialect grammars". Submitted to: Szmrecsanyi  & Wälchli (eds). Aggregating dialectology and typology: linguistic variation in text and speech, within and across languages (working title). Berlin: de Gruyter.
  [manuscript (.pdf)]

• Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt (submitted). "Variation und Wandel" ["Variation and Change"]. Textbook chapter submitted to: Auer (ed). Sprachwissenschaft: eine Einführung. Stuttgart: Metzler.

• Wolk, Christoph, Joan Bresnan, Anette Rosenbach & Benedikt Szmrecsanyi (submitted). "Dative and genitive variability in Late Modern English: Exploring cross-constructional variation and change".
  [revised manuscript (.pdf)]

to appear & in press

• Hundt, Marianne & Benedikt Szmrecsanyi (accepted for publication). "Animacy in early New Zealand English". English World-Wide.

• Kortmann, Bernd & Benedikt Szmrecsanyi (eds) (in press). Linguistic Complexity: Second Language Acquisition, Indigenization, Contact. (Series: Linguae et Litterae: Publications of the School of Language and Literature, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies). Berlin: de Gruyter.
  ISBN: 9783110229226
  [book website | General Introduction (.pdf)]

• Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt (in press). "Analyzing aggregated linguistic data". In: Krug, Manfred & Julia Schlüter (eds.), Research Methods in Language Variation and Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  [revised manuscript (.pdf)]

• Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt (in press). "Analyticity and syntheticity in the history of English". In: Nevalainen, Terttu & Elizabeth Closs Traugott (eds.), Rethinking the History of English. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  [revised manuscript (.pdf)]

• Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt (in press). "Geography is overrated". In: Hansen, Sandra, Christian Schwarz, Philipp Stoeckle & Tobias Streck (eds.), Dialectological and folk dialectological concepts of space. Berlin: de Gruyter.
  [revised manuscript (.pdf)]

• Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt (in press). Grammatical Variation in British English Dialects: A Study in Corpus-Based Dialectometry. (Series: Studies in English Language).  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt (in press). "The great regression: genitive variability in Late Modern English news texts". In: Börjars, Kersti, David Denison & Alan Scott (eds.), Morphosyntactic categories and the expression of possession. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
  [revised manuscript (.pdf)]

• Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt & Bernd Kortmann (in press). "Introduction: Linguistic complexity – Second Language Acquisition, indigenization, contact". In: Kortmann, Bernd & Benedikt Szmrecsanyi (eds.), Linguistic Complexity: Second Language Acquisition, Indigenization, Contact. Berlin: de Gruyter.
  [manuscript (.pdf)]
  

2011

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Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt & Bernd Kortmann (2011). "Typological profiling: learner Englishes versus indigenized L2 varieties of English ". In: Mukherjee, Joybrato & Marianne Hundt (eds), Exploring Second-Language Varieties of English and Learner Englishes: Bridging a Paradigm Gap. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 167-187.
[uncorrected page proofs (.pdf) | Google Print]

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Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt & Christoph Wolk (2011). "Holistic corpus-based dialectology". Brazilian Journal of Applied Linguistics/Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada 11(2): 561-592 (special issue "Corpus studies: future directions", ed. by Stefan Th. Gries). Available online at http://www.periodicos.letras.ufmg.br/rbla/index.php?lang=en&.
[publication (.pdf)]

2010

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Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt (2010a). "The English genitive alternation in a cognitive sociolinguistics perspective". In: Geeraerts, Dirk, Gitte Kristiansen & Yves Peirsman (eds), Advances in Cognitive Sociolinguistics. Berlin/New York:  De Gruyter Mouton, 141-166.
DOI: 10.1515/9783110226461.139
[revised manuscript (.pdf) | Google Print]

2009

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Anderwald, Lieselotte & Benedikt Szmrecsanyi (2009a).  "Corpus linguistics and dialectology". In: Lüdeling, Anke & Merja Kytö (eds), Corpus Linguistics. An International Handbook. (Series: Handbücher zur Sprache und Kommunikationswissenschaft/Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science). Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1126-1139.
DOI: 10.1515/9783110213881.2.1126
[manuscript (.pdf) | Google Print]

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Anderwald, Lieselotte & Benedikt Szmrecsanyi (2009b). "Why grammar is real: a usage-based perspective on patterns". In: Eckstein, Lars & Christoph Reinfandt (eds), Anglistentag 2008 - Tübingen - Proceedings. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 403-414.
[manuscript (.pdf)]

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Kortmann, Bernd & Benedikt Szmrecsanyi (2009). "World Englishes between simplification and complexification". In: Siebers, Lucia & Thomas Hoffmann (eds), World Englishes -- Problems, Properties and Prospects: selected papers from the 13th IAWE conference. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 265-285.
[uncorrected page proofs (.pdf) | Google Print]

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Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt (2009). "Typological parameters of intralingual variability: grammatical analyticity versus syntheticity in varieties of English". Language Variation and Change 21(3): 319–353.
DOI: 10.1017/S0954394509990123
[uncorrected page proofs (.pdf) | published version via Cambridge Journals]

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Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt & Bernd Kortmann (2009a). "Between simplification and complexification: non-standard varieties of English around the world". In: Sampson, Geoffrey , David Gil & Peter Trudgill (eds.), Language Complexity as an Evolving Variable. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 64-79.
[uncorrected page proofs (.pdf)  | Google Print]

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Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt & Bernd Kortmann (2009b).  "The morphosyntax of varieties of English worldwide: a quantitative perspective". Lingua 119(11): 1643-1663 (special issue "The Forests behind the Trees", ed. by John Nerbonne & Franz Manni).
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2007.09.016
[uncorrected page proofs (.pdf) | published version via elsevier]

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Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt & Bernd Kortmann (2009c). "Vernacular universals and angloversals in a typological perspective". In: Filppula, Markku, Juhani Klemola & Heli Paulasto (eds), Vernacular Universals and Language Contacts: Evidence from Varieties of English and Beyond. London/New York: Routledge, 33-53.
[uncorrected page proofs (.pdf) | Google Print]

2008

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Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt & Nils Goldschmidt (2008). "The Cameelious Hump and 'Just So Stories' in economic literature – a linguistic analysis". In: Clift, Edward (ed.), How Language is Used to Do Business: Essays on the Rhetoric of Economics. New York City: Edwin Mellen Press.
[manuscript (.pdf) | book website]

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Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt & Lars Hinrichs (2008).  "Probabilistic determinants of genitive variation in spoken and written English: a multivariate comparison across time, space, and genres". In: Nevalainen, Terttu, Irma Taavitsainen, Päivi Pahta & Minna Korhonen (eds.), The Dynamics of Linguistic Variation: Corpus Evidence on English Past and Present. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 291-309.
[uncorrected page proofs (.pdf) | Google Print]

2007

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Goldschmidt, Nils & Benedikt Szmrecsanyi (2007).  "What do economists talk about? A linguistic analysis of published writing in economic journals". American Journal of Economics and Sociology 66(2): 335–378.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1536-7150.2007.00514.x
[uncorrected page proofs (.pdf) | published version via IngentaConnect]

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Hinrichs, Lars & Benedikt Szmrecsanyi (2007). "Recent changes in the function and frequency of standard English genitive constructions: a multivariate analysis of tagged corpora". English Language and Linguistics 11(3): 437–474.
DOI: 10.1017/S1360674307002341
[uncorrected page proofs (.pdf) | published version via Cambridge Journals]

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2006

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Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt (2006a). Morphosyntactic persistence in spoken English. A corpus study at the intersection of variationist sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and discourse analysis. (Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 177). Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
ISBN: 9783110190120
{reviewed by Ingo Plag in Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 27, 293-296 (.pdf)}
[book website | Google Print]

2005

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Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt (2005a). "Language users as creatures of habit: a corpus-linguistic analysis of persistence in spoken English". Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 1(1): 113-150.
DOI: 10.1515/cllt.2005.1.1.113
[uncorrected page proofs (.pdf) | published version via atypon Link]

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Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt (2005b). "Never change a winning chunk". Recherches Anglaises et Nord-Américaines 38: 21-34.
[manuscript (.pdf)]

2004

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Kortmann, Bernd & Benedikt Szmrecsanyi (2004).  "Global synopsis – morphological and syntactic variation in English". In: Kortmann, Bernd, Kate Burridge, Rajend Mesthrie & Edgar Schneider (eds.), A Handbook of Varieties of English, Vol. 2: Morphology and Syntax. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1142-1202.
[publication (.pdf) | Google Print]

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Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt (2004). "On operationalizing syntactic complexity". In: Purnelle, Gérard, Cédrick Fairon & Anne Dister (eds.),  Le poids des mots. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Textual Data Statistical Analysis. Louvain-la-Neuve, March 10-12, 2004, Vol. 2. Louvain-la-Neuve, Presses universitaires de Louvain. 1032-1039.
[publication (.pdf) | Google Print]

2003

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Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt (2003). "be going to versus will/shall: does syntax matter?" Journal of English Linguistics 31(4): 295-323.
DOI: 10.1177/0075424203257830
[uncorrected page proofs (.pdf) | published version via Sage Journals]
 

Book reviews

• Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt (to appear). Review of  Bauer, Roland. 2009. Dialektometrische Einsichten. Sprachklassifikatorische Oberflächenmuster und Tiefenstrukturen im lombardo-venedischen Dialektraum und in der Rätoromania. San Martin de Tor. Romanistisches Jahrbuch.

• Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt (to appear). Review of  McWhorter, John H. 2011. Linguistic simplicity and complexity: why do languages undress? Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. Language Dynamics and Change.

• Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt (2007). Review of Joybrato Mukherjee. 2005. English Ditransitive Verbs: Aspects of Theory, Description and a Usage-based Model. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi. English Language and Linguistics 11(1): 240-246.
  DOI: 10.1017/S1360674306232222
  [published version via Cambridge Journals]

• Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt (2006b). Review of Rens Bod, Jennifer Hay, and Stefanie Jannedy (Eds.). 2003. Probabilistic Linguistics. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 2(1): 79-94.
  DOI: 10.1515/CLLT.2006.004
  [published version via atypon Link]