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Exploring probabilistic grammar(s) in varieties of English around the world. KU Leuven

Benedikt Szmrecsanyi
Quantitative Lexicology and Variational Linguistics (QLVL), Leuven
The project is situated at the crossroads of research on English as a World Language, usage-based theoretical linguistics, variationist linguistics, and cognitive sociolinguistics. It specifically marries the spirit of the PROBABILISTIC GRAMMAR FRAMEWORK (which posits that grammatical knowledge is experience-based and partially probabilistic) to research along the lines of the ENGLISH WORLD-WIDE PARADIGM (which is concerned with the dialectology ...

Regional variation in probabilistic grammars: A multifactorial study of the English dative alternation KU Leuven

Benedikt Szmrecsanyi
Quantitative Lexicology and Variational Linguistics (QLVL), Leuven

This study is part of the project "Exploring probabilistic grammar(s) in varieties of English around the World" and explores the underlying constraints that shape syntactic variation in new varieties of English around the World. More precisely, my research is concerned with the probabilistic constraints that influence the choice between a ditransitive (e.g. "John gives Mary the apple") and a prepositional dative (e.g. "John gives the apple to ...