Tom Rankin

List of John Benjamins publications in which Tom Rankin is involved.

Journal

Pedagogical Linguistics

Edited by Andreas Trotzke and Tom Rankin

ISSN 2665-9581 | E‑ISSN 2665‑959X

Rankin, Tom and Thomas Wagner 2025 Effects of input frequency and microvariation on knowledge of negative inversion in L2 English Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 15:5, pp. 718–744 | Article

The present study investigates whether L2 learners of English distinguish between (un)grammatical word orders after fronted negative adverbials to identify negative inversion. Previous research on transfer and resetting of verb second (V2) in L1 German–L2 English is extended to explore residual… read more

Rankin, Tom 2022 Authenticity and input: A comment on Gilquin 2022 Pedagogical Linguistics 3:2, pp. 160–165 | Commentary

Rankin, Tom 2021 Review of Götz & Mukherjee (2019): Learner Corpora and Language Teaching International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 7:2, pp. 295–300 | Review

Trotzke, Andreas and Tom Rankin 2020 Editorial: Introduction to Pedagogical Linguistics Pedagogical Linguistics 1:1, pp. 1–7 | Editorial

Linguistics comes in many flavors. Applied, cognitive, descriptive, educational, formal, functional, generative, and many more can be compounded onto linguistics to characterize specific frameworks and approaches. In this brief editorial, we outline the rationale for the notion and the… read more

Rankin, Tom 2017 The distribution of reflexive intensifiers in learner English International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 3:1, pp. 36–60 | Article

This study investigates the use of reflexive intensifiers by L1 German-speaking learners of L2 English against the background of previous research which has identified non-target-like distribution of such features which are sensitive to discourse constraints and/or register variation.… read more

Rankin, Tom 2015 Review of Tizón-Couto (2014): Clausal Complements in Native and Learner English. A Corpus-Based Study with LINDSEI and VICOLSE International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 1:2, pp. 279–283 | Review

Rankin, Tom 2014 Word order and case in the comprehension of L2 German by L1 English speakers EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 14 (2014), Roberts, Leah, Ineke Vedder and Jan H. Hulstijn (eds.), pp. 201–224 | Article

This paper replicates and extends experiments by Grüter (2006) and Grüter & Conradie (2006) to explore some of the learnability implications of Full Transfer at the initial state of L2A. L1 English-speaking learners’ comprehension of L2 German questions and relative clauses is tested on the basis… read more

Rankin, Tom 2014  Variational learning in L2: The transfer of L1 syntax and parsing strategies in the interpretation of wh-questions by L1 German learners of L2 English Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 4:4, pp. 432–461 | Article

This study examines the interpretation of constituent wh-questions in L2 English by learners whose L1 is Austrian German. Austrian German and English share identical surface word order patterns for a range of question forms, but with distinct semantic interpretations. Non-target patterns of… read more

Schiftner, Barbara and Tom Rankin 2012 The use of demonstrative reference in English texts by Austrian school-age learners Developmental and Crosslinguistic Perspectives in Learner Corpus Research, Tono, Yukio, Yuji Kawaguchi and Makoto Minegishi (eds.), pp. 63–82 | Article

Rankin, Tom and Barbara Schiftner 2011 Marginal prepositions in learner English: Applying local corpus data Applying Corpus Linguistics, Farr, Fiona and Anne O'Keeffe (eds.), pp. 412–434 | Article

This paper illustrates the use of learner corpus data to inform language teaching. A comparative interlanguage analysis of a specific class of complex and marginal prepositions in a range of L1 German learner corpora is presented. The comparison shows that, in native English, prepositions in the… read more