On the basis of 698 instances of Saxon genitive and of-construction, the present paper explores the use of these modifiers from a corpus-linguistic perspective. In particular, the influence of the lexical class of the modifier, the semantic relationship expressed by the constructions, and weight and syntactic complexity is analysed. It will be argued that the variation of genitive and of-construction can be explained with regard to two major underlying factors, namely ‘processability' and ‘degree of human involvement'.
2025. Interpretative variability of the English genitive: A minimal context-based approach. Lege artis. Language yesterday, today, tomorrow.► pp. 92 ff.
顾, 玉婷
2025. A Conceptual Study of Translators’ Cognitive Styles from a Multi-Factor Perspective—A Case Study of the English Translations of Lu Xun’s Works. Modern Linguistics 13:08 ► pp. 765 ff.
Piotrowska, Alicja
2024. Taget på husetorhusets tag. Scandinavian Studies 96:4 ► pp. 121 ff.
2023. Alternation phenomena and language proficiency: the genitive alternation in the spoken language of EFL learners. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 19:3 ► pp. 427 ff.
Gardner, Matt Hunt, Eva Uffing, Nicholas Van Vaeck, Benedikt Szmrecsanyi & Stefan Th. Gries
2021. Variation isn’t that hard: Morphosyntactic choice does not predict production difficulty. PLOS ONE 16:6 ► pp. e0252602 ff.
Azaz, Mahmoud
2020. Structural surface overlap and derivational complexity in crosslinguistic transfer: Acquisition of English genitive alternation by Egyptian Arabic-speaking learners. Second Language Research 36:4 ► pp. 529 ff.
2014. Variation in English genitives across modality and genres. English Language and Linguistics 18:3 ► pp. 471 ff.
ROSENBACH, ANETTE
2014. English genitive variation – the state of the art. English Language and Linguistics 18:2 ► pp. 215 ff.
민지영
2012. The s-genitives with Inanimate Possessors Denoting ‘Time’ and ‘Location’. The New Korean Journal of English Lnaguage & Literature 54:4 ► pp. 245 ff.
Berg, Thomas
2011. Recursion introduces a left-branching bias (where possible). Linguistics 49:5
Ming, Tao & Liang Chen
2010. A discourse-pragmatic study of the word order variation in Chinese relative clauses. Journal of Pragmatics 42:1 ► pp. 168 ff.
Zeldes, Amir
2010. Tony McEnery, Richard Xiao & Yukio Tono. 2006. Corpus-Based Language Studies. An Advanced Resource Book (Routledge Applied Linguistics). London, New York: Routledge. xx, 386 S. Zeitschrift für Rezensionen zur germanistischen Sprachwissenschaft 2:2
Scott, Alan K.
2009. The Marking of Gender Agreement Using Derivational Affixes in German and Dutch. Journal of Germanic Linguistics 21:1 ► pp. 37 ff.
Viti, Carlotta
2009. Pragmatic implications of head and dependent marking. Folia Linguistica 43:2
EunJooLee
2008. An analysis of corpus-based research on TEFL and applied linguistics.. English Teaching 63:2 ► pp. 283 ff.
Jäger, Gerhard & Anette Rosenbach
2006. The winner takes it all — almost: cumulativity in grammatical variation. Linguistics 44:5
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