Quantitative studies in linguistics almost always involve data points that are related to each
other, such as multiple data points from the same participant, multiple texts from the same …

This study explores variability in particle placement across nine varieties of English around
the globe, utilizing data from the International Corpus of English and the Global Corpus of …

Recent evidence suggests that probabilistic grammars may be modulated by communication
mode and genre. Accordingly, the question arises how complex language users' lectal …

This study investigates the factors significantly constraining dative alternation in Chinese by
adopting mixed-effects logistic regression modelling. The analysis showed that such factors …

Abstract Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, Professor of Linguistics in the Quantitative Lexicology and
Variational Linguistics research group at the Katholieke Universiteit (KU) Leuven, writes this …

In every-day language use, two or more structurally unrelated constructions may
occasionally give rise to strings that look very similar on the surface. As a result of this …

This thesis would not have been possible without the tremendous support of numerous
people. First and foremost, I am extremely grateful to my supervisors at KU Leuven, Benedikt …

This study investigates how foreign language proficiency, which previous corpus-based
research on alternation phenomena has largely ignored, influences the choice of genitive …

Inspired by work in comparative sociolinguistics and quantitative dialectometry, we sketch a
corpus-based method (Variation-Based Distance & Similarity Modeling—VADIS for short) to …

As the Dutch language lost its case system during the deflection process that has
characterized many of the major European languages in the last millennium, its verbs …