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Chair of English Linguistics

BICLCE 2019

  1.  University of bamberg
  2. Faculties
  3. Humanities
  4. Institutes
  5. English and American Studies
  6. Chair of English Linguistics
  7. Conferences
  8. BICLCE 2019
  9. Plenary Speakers
  10. Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

Friday, 27th September, 9.30-10.30

Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

Benedikt Szmrecsanyi is an associate professor of linguistics at the Department of Linguistics of KU Leuven. His research interests include variation studies (synchronic & diachronic), probabilistic grammar, language complexity, geolinguistics, and dialect typology. Recent books include Grammatical Variation in British English Dialects (2013, CUP), and Aggregating Dialectology, Typology, and Register Analysis (2014, ed. with Bernhard W?lchli, de Gruyter). He has some 30 papers in international, peer-reviewed journals, including e.g. in Language, Language Variation and Change, the Journal of Linguistic Geography, the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, and English World-Wide. He is an associate editor of the journal Cognitive Linguistics, and is currently directing two Research Foundation Flanders-funded projects: Exploring probabilistic grammar(s) in varieties of English around the world, and The register-specificity of probabilistic grammatical knowledge in English and Dutch.

Exploring probabilistic grammar(s) in varieties of English

Inspired by work in comparative sociolinguistics (e.g. Tagliamonte 2001)