An important subset of the empirical research conducted within usage-based construction
grammar is formed by alternation studies. Still, it is not always clear what exactly qualifies as …

Recent evidence suggests that probabilistic grammars may be modulated by communication
mode and genre. Accordingly, the question arises how complex language users' lectal …

Inspired by work in comparative sociolinguistics and quantitative dialectometry, we sketch a
corpus-based method (Variation-Based Distance & Similarity Modeling—VADIS for short) to …

As the Dutch language lost its case system during the deflection process that has
characterized many of the major European languages in the last millennium, its verbs …

This special collection brings together research exploring and evaluating probabilistic
variation patterns from a comparative perspective, thus highlighting current work situated at …

This chapter provides an overview of recent innovative approaches that focus on the
distributional patterns of linguistic phenomena in dialects across different languages. We set …

This paper traces the history of the English dative alternation by means of a quantitative
analysis of instances of both the nominal and the prepositional construction in a corpus of …

The present paper investigates variation between nominal and prepositional adjuncts of
time as in, for example,[on] that day, they left. The main goals are (i) to assess potential …

Within usage-based theory, notably in construction grammar though also elsewhere, the role
of the lexicon and of lexically-specific patterns in morphosyntax is well recognized. The …

This paper investigates the relationship between the stylistic context of utterance production
and the language user's regional background as influencing factors in one syntactic …