book projects in progress

[p3]

Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt (in preparation). Morphosyntactic variation in British English dialects: Exploring dialect grammars in the aggregate perspective (working title). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

[p2]

Auer, Peter, Martin Hilpert, Anja Stukenbrock & Benedikt Szmrecsanyi (eds) (in preparation). Space in language and linguistics: geographical, interactional, and cognitive perspectives (working title). Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter.

[p1]

Kortmann, Bernd & Benedikt Szmrecsanyi (eds) (in preparation). Linguistic complexity in interlanguage varieties, L2 varieties, and contact languages (working title). Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter.

submitted

[s1]

Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt & Bernd Kortmann (submitted). "Typological profiling: learner Englishes versus indigenized L2 varieties of English".
[manuscript (.pdf)]

to appear

[a5]

Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt (to appear). "Aggregate data analysis in variationist linguistics". In: Krug, Manfred & Julia Schlüter (eds.), Research Methods in Language Variation and Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
[manuscript (.pdf)]

[a4]

Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt (to appear). "Corpus-based dialectometry -- a methodological sketch". Corpora 6(1).
[revised manuscript (.pdf)]

[a3]

Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt (to appear). "Geography is overrated". In: Hansen, Sandra, Christian Schwarz, Philipp Stoeckle & Tobias Streck (eds.), Dialectological and folk dialectological concepts of space. Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter.
[manuscript (.pdf)]

[a2]

Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt (to appear). "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)]

[a1]

Kortmann, Bernd & Benedikt Szmrecsanyi (to appear). "Parameters of morphosyntactic variation in World Englishes: prospects and limitations of searching for universals". In: Siemund, Peter (ed), Linguistic Universals and Language Variation. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
[revised manuscript (.pdf)]

2010

[24]

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

2009

[22]

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

[21]

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 a Variable Concept. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 64-79.
[uncorrected page proofs (.pdf)]

[20]

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).
[uncorrected page proofs (.pdf) | published version via elsevier]

[19]

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]

[18]

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.
[manuscript (.pdf) | Google Print]

[17]

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)]

[16]

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]

2008

[14]

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)]

[13]

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]

[12]

Goldschmidt, Nils & Benedikt Szmrecsanyi (2008). "Dimension reduction of word-frequency data as a substitute for intersubjective content analysis". In: Vogt, W. Paul (ed.), Selecting Research Methods, Vol. 4: Methods for analysing and reporting results. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
[reprint of Goldschmidt & Szmrecsanyi 2007]
[Google Print]

2007

[11]

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.
[published version via Cambridge Journals]

[10]

Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt & Nuria Hernández (2007). Manual of Information to accompany the Freiburg Corpus of English Dialects Sampler ("FRED-S"). URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:25-opus-28598, URL: http://www.freidok.uni-freiburg.de/volltexte/2859/. Freiburg. (32pp.)

[9]

Goldschmidt, Nils & Benedikt Szmrecsanyi (2007).  "What do economists talk about? A linguistic analysis of published writing in economic journals". Am J Economics & Sociology 66(2): 335–378.
[uncorrected page proofs (.pdf) | published version via IngentaConnect]

[8]

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.
[uncorrected page proofs (.pdf) | published version via Cambridge Journals]

2006

[7]

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

[6]

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.
[published version via atypon Link]

2005

[5]

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.
[uncorrected page proofs (.pdf) | published version via atypon Link]

[4]

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

2004

[3]

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.
[published version (.pdf) | Google Print]

[2]

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

2003

[1]

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