The use of computer corpora in the textual demonstrability of gradience in linguistic categories

Animacy and grammatical variation—Findings from English genitive variation

“…However, the choice between the two genitives in English is sensitive to graduated animacy values along the scale in (1), as shown by various empirical studies (e.g. Jucker, 1993;Leech et al, 1994;Raab-Fischer, 1995;O'Connor et al, 2004). 4 (1)…”

Emerging variation: determiner genitives and noun modifiers in English

“…LOB (press) vs FLOB press corpus: relative frequency of s-genitive and of-genitive on the basis of Raab-Fischer's (1995) data s-genitive, as observed by Siemund (1993), is matched by a corresponding decrease in the use of of-genitives. also Jucker, 1993;Leech et al, 1994;or O'Connor et al, 2004 for converging synchronic evidence). 19 Raab-Fischer's results show an increase in the relative frequency of the s-genitive from the 1960s to the 1990s with all noun classes, though the increase is particularly pronounced with the nonhuman noun classes of collective nouns (24.9% > 44.9%), geographical/locative nouns (25% > 46.4%) and temporal nouns (34.9% > 45.5%).…”

“…Jucker (1993); Leech et al (1994); Hundt (1997Hundt ( , 1998; Raab-Fischer (1995), or O'Connor et al (2004 The two are so closely related that in some literature on the topic the two scales actually get coalesced, as e.g. e.g.…”

Statistische Modellierung

“…Paolillo 2002) verwendet wurde, ein multifaktorielles Verfahren zur statistischen Analyse soziolinguistischer Variation; in Abschnitt 2.2 werde ich allerdings argumentieren, dass VAR-BRUL eine Reihe von Problemen aufweist, die ihren Vorreiteranspruch unterminieren. Trotz VARBRULs Schwächen ist jedoch nicht zu leugnen, dass multifaktorielle Ansätze erst deutlich später Eingang in die Korpus-und kognitive Linguistik gefunden haben (Leech, Francis & Xu 1994und Gries 1999 sind die ersten solchen Studien).…”