Corpus linguistics is the study of language data on a large scale-the computer-aided
analysis of very extensive collections of transcribed utterances or written texts. This textbook …

This is the first full study of how people refer to entities in natural discourse. It contributes to
the understanding of both linguistic diversity and the cognitive underpinnings of language …

The central issue of Newmeyer's new book is at the very core of language typological
research: how are similarities and differences among languages to be described and how …

Narrative production experiments reveal systematic crosslinguistic differences in the
preferred ratio of overt to possible argument NPs (called here the REFERENTIAL DENSITY …

Since Du Bois's (1987b) seminal paper, ergative alignment in morphosyntax has been
claimed to correlate with a characteristic constellation of argument realization in discourse …

This textbook introduces the fundamental concepts and methods of corpus linguistics for
students approaching this topic for the first time, putting specific emphasis on the enormous …

The choice between pronominal and zero form for objects in the Oceanic language Vera'a is
investigated quantitatively in texts from two registers with discourse topics of three different …

The current large-scale initiatives towards documenting endangered languages have
produced, among many other outcomes, an unprecedented amount of digitally archived …

The choice between a pronoun and zero anaphor for the expression of third-person subjects
is examined in a corpus of Vera'a (Oceanic). While predominantly expressed by a pronoun …

I am eternally grateful to my supervisors, longtime collaborators, and dearest allies, Geoffrey
Haig and Stefan Schnell. None of this would have been possible without their unwavering …