Benedikt Szmrecsanyi - Presentations
 

  • 2012. "Zur Schnittstelle zwischen Variationslinguistik und Sprachtypologie". Guest lecture, University of Mainz, February 13.

  • 2011. "Analyticity-syntheticity variance between Middle English and Present-Day English". The Helsinki Corpus Festival, Helsinki, September 28 - October 2.

  • 2011 (with Marianne Hundt). "Animacy down under". The Helsinki Corpus Festival, Helsinki, September 28 - October 2.

  • 2011 (with Jeff Siegel & Bernd Kortmann). "Measuring analyticity and syntheticity in pidgin and creole languages". The 2011 summer conference of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, Accra, Ghana, August 2-6.

  • 2011. "Modeling dialect diffusion and diversity on the basis of naturalistic speech data". Workshop 'Geographic Perspectives on Language Diversity and Diachrony' (in conjunction with the Linguistic Institute 2011), University of Colorado Boulder, July 23-24.

  • 2011 (with Christoph Wolk, Joan Bresnan & Anette Rosenbach). "Dative and genitive variability in late ModE". ISLE2, Boston, June 17-21.

  • 2011 (with Katharina Ehret & Christoph Wolk). "Genitive variation in Late Modern English: focus on weight and rhythm". Workshop 'Genitive variation in English', ISLE2, Boston, June 17-21.

  • 2011. "Culture change versus grammar change: the limits of text frequency (and what we can do about it)". Workshop 'How can new corpus-based techniques advance historical description and linguistic theory?', ISLE2, Boston, June 17-21.

  • 2010. "Profiling morphosyntax: L2 varieties of English vis-à-vis English-based pidgin and creole languages". 1st Aarhus University workshop on the interdependence of second language acquisition research and research on the development of contact languages, December 18.

  • 2010 (with Christoph Wolk, in collaboration with Joan Bresnan & Anette Rosenbach). "A multivariate history of dative and genitive variability, 1650--2000". Workshop 'The Development of Syntactic Alternations', Stanford University, November 12.

  • 2010. “Speech relationships in the HVE morphosyntax survey”. Bloomsday Meeting 2010: Echoes of Albion, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, June 16.

  • 2010. “Aggregate grammatical variation in traditional British English dialects: Corpus-based dialectometry”. ICAME31, Giessen, May 26-30.

  • 2010 (with Christoph Wolk, Katharina Ehret & Joan Bresnan). “Dative and genitive variability in Late Modern English”. Workshop on "Probabilistic syntax: phonetics, diachrony, and synchrony", Freiburg, March 22.

  • 2010. “Aggregative Dialektologie”. Guest lecture, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, January 28.

  • 2009. “Varieties of English by Numbers”. Guest lecture, University of Zurich, December 11.

  • 2009. “Changing habitats versus changing grammars: the case of genitive variability in Late Modern English news texts”. Workshop on “Corpus-based Advances in Historical Linguistics” (sponsored by the Philological Society), The University of York, November 14.

  • 2009. “Variationist sociolinguistics meets morphological typology: grammatical analyticity vs. syntheticity in varieties of English”. NWAV38, Ottawa, October 22-25.

  • 2009. “Diachronic genitive variability and grammaticalization theory”. Workshop on 'Form-meaning co-variation in grammaticalization', NWAV38, Ottawa, October 22-25.

  • 2009. “Corpus-based dialectometry: The grammar of traditional British English dialects”. Third International Conference Grammar & Corpora, Mannheim, September 22-24.

  • 2009. “What happened to the s-genitive? Genitive variation after Early Modern English”. Workshop on “Morpho-syntactic categories and the expression of possession”, The University of Manchester, April 3-4.

  • 2008. “Varieties of English world-wide in a typological perspective”. Guest lecture, University of Paderborn, December 11.

  • 2008. “Dialectology by numbers: World Englishes in the aggregate view”. Guest lecture, Department of Linguistics, UT Austin, November 10.

  • 2008 (with Lieselotte Anderwald). “Why grammar is real – a usage-based perspective on patterns”. Anglistentag 2008, Tübingen, October 5–8.

  • 2008. “Corpus-based dialectometry: English dialects in the British Isles”. MethodsXIII, Leeds, UK, August 4–8.

  • 2008 (with Bernd Kortmann). “Syntheticity, analyticity, and grammaticity inWorld Englishes”. MethodsXIII, Leeds, UK, August 4–8.

  • 2008 (with Daniela Kolbe). “The influence of persistence factors on the choice of complementizer”. MethodsXIII, Leeds, UK, August 4–8.

  • 2008. “The joys of analyzing aggregate linguistic data”. Invitational symposium on “Approaches to Variation and Change in English”, University of Bamberg, July 21–23.

  • 2008. “Probabilistic grammars in time, space, and across genres: the case of the English genitive alternation”. Guest lecture, Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung (University of Stuttgart), July 3.

  • 2008 (with Bernd Kortmann). “The complexity of grammars: From the study of large-scale variation in English to language typology”. Plenary given at the 30th annual meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachforschung, February 27–29.

  • 2007 (with Bernd Kortmann). “World Englishes between simplification and complexification”. IAWE13, Regensburg, Germany, October 4–6.

  • 2007. “Probing probabilistic grammars in time, space, and across genres”. Invited talk at the theme session “Cognitive Sociolinguistics”, ICLC10, Krakow, July 15–20.

  • 2007. “Persistence as a probabilistic determinant of word order variation”. Guest lecture, University of Paderborn, May 31.

  • 2007 (with Bernd Kortmann). “Between simplification and complexification: Non-standard varieties of English around the world”. Workshop “Language Complexity as an Evolving Variable”, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, April 12–14.

  • 2007. “Language users as creatures of habit: probing the psycholinguistic underpinnings of linguistic variation”. Guest lecture, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, March 28.

  • 2007. “Psycholinguistics meets variationist sociolinguistics: the case of morphosyntactic persistence”. Guest lecture, Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto, March 11.

  • 2006. “Persistence, Repetitiveness, and Priming: A Corpus-Linguistic Perspective”. Guest lecture, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, November 17.

  • 2006 (with Lars Hinrichs). “A multivariate analysis of genitive marking in standard English corpora”. NWAV35, Ohio State University, Columbus, November 9–12.

  • 2006. “Trigger happy lexis: the case of lexical persistence”. “Exploring the Lexis-Grammar Interface” (ELeGI). University of Hanover, October 5-7.

  • 2006 (with Bernd Kortmann). “Vernacular universals and angloversals in a typological perspective”. Symposium “World Englishes: Vernacular Universals vs. Contact-Induced Change”. Mekrijärvi (Finland), September 1–3.

  • 2006 (with Lars Hinrichs). “Genitive marking in standard English using -s and of : A multivariate analysis of the POS-tagged Brown family of corpora”. ICAME27, University of Helsinki, Finland, May 24–28.

  • 2006 (with Bernd Kortmann). “Varieties of English: A Global Perspective”. Seventh Creolistics Workshop “Simplicity and complexity in pidgins and creoles”, University of Giessen, Germany, April 6–8.

  • 2006 (with Bernd Kortmann). “Morphosyntactic Doubling Phenomena in Non-Standard Varieties of English”. Workshop “Syntactic Doubling in European Dialects”, Meertens Institute, Amsterdam, March 16–18.

  • 2005 (with Bernd Kortmann). “The quest for angloversals and vernacular universals in varieties of English world-wide”. NWAV34, New York University, NYC, October 20–23.

  • 2005 (with Hubert Cuyckens). “The role of register in the shift from to-infinitive to gerundive complement”. ICLC9, Seoul, July 17–22.

  • 2005. “Persistence in Spoken English: A Variationist Approach”. ICLAVE3, Amsterdam, June 23–25.

  • 2005 (with Nils Goldschmidt). “What do economists talk about? A linguistic analysis of published writing in economic journals”. “Rhetoric and Economics: An Interdisciplinary Conference”, Millikin University, Decatur, Illinois, June 6–9.

  • 2005 (with Bernd Kortmann). “The quest for angloversals and vernacular universals in English based Pidgins and Creoles”. Workshop “Creole language structure between substrates and superstrates”, Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, June 3–5.

  • 2004. “Never change a winning team: A corpus-based analysis of persistence in spoken English”. NWAV33, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, September 30–October 3.

  • 2004. “On operationalizing syntactic complexity”. JADT2004, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, March 10–12.