The present article provides a detailed description of the corpus of Early Modern
Multiloquent Authors (EMMA), as well as two small case studies that illustrate its benefits. As …

For a long time, linguists more or less denied the existence of individual differences in
grammatical knowledge. While recent years have seen an explosion of research on …

This paper examines, on the basis of a longitudinal corpus of 50 early modern authors, how
change at the aggregate level of the community interacts with variation and change at the …

Linguists have typically studied language change at the aggregate level of speech
communities, yet key mechanisms of change such as analogy and automation operate …

This paper aims to give an overview of corpus-based research that investigates processes of
language change from the theoretical perspective of Construction Grammar. Starting in the …

The aim of this thesis is to investigate the development of relative the which in Early Modern
English scientific prose. The relative pronoun was common in Late Middle English and …

This paper presents the contours of an innovative study probing the impact of interindividual
differences in cognitive representations on long-term population-level language change …

The thesis proposes a new usage-based theory of semantic-grammatical innovation that in
contrast to previous approaches addresses both the semasiological and onomasiological …

4. Results Our results focus on two case studies:(1) be going to, which is an example of
incipient grammaticalization, and (2) the special passives, which are syntactic innovations …

This paper focuses on the micro-analysis of historical data, which allows us to investigate
language use across the lifetime of individual speakers. Certain concepts, such as social …