Over the last few years, the number of corpora that can be used for language comparison
has dramatically increased. The corpora are so diverse in their structure, size and …

The present paper discusses the benefits and challenges of token-based typology, which
takes into account the frequencies of words and constructions in language use. This …

In this paper, I investigate online film subtitles from a quantitative perspective, treating them
as a separate register of communication. Subtitles from films in English and other languages …

This paper reports on the state-of-the-art in application of multidimensional scaling (MDS)
techniques to create semantic maps in linguistic research. MDS refers to a statistical …

The present paper discusses connectivity and proximity maps of causative constructions and
combines them with different types of typological data. In the first case study, I show how one …

This paper investigates variation of lexical and analytic causatives in 15 European
languages from the Germanic, Romance, and Slavic genera based on a multilingual parallel …

This thesis is a corpus-based, quantitative, and typological analysis of the functions of Early
Slavic participle constructions and their finite competitors ($ jegda $-'when'-clauses). The …

This thesis examines the use of the Swedish double object construction (the DOC) and
compares this with the use of three semantically equivalent prepositional object …

The article starts with a definition of clausal complementation as “biclaus al syntactic
constructions in which the predicate of one clause 'entails reference to another proposition …

Previous work on psych predicates has so far mostly focused on verbs and their non-
canonical argument structures within and across languages. In this study, we propose a …