Tom Rankin
List of John Benjamins publications for which Tom Rankin plays a role.
Journals
ISSN 2665-9581 | E-ISSN 2665-959X
Articles
2022.
Commentary
Review of Götz & Mukherjee (2019): Learner Corpora and Language Teaching. International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 7:2, pp. 295–300
2021. Review
2020.
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 | Editorial
The distribution of reflexive intensifiers in learner English. International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 3:1, pp. 36–60
2017. 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. Occurrences… read more | Article
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
2015. Review
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
2014. 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 | Article
: 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
2014. 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 | Article
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
2012. Article
Marginal prepositions in learner English: Applying local corpus data. Applying Corpus Linguistics, Farr, Fiona and Anne O'Keeffe (eds.), pp. 412–434
2011. 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 | Article