Tom Rankin

Tom Rankin

List of John Benjamins publications for which Tom Rankin plays a role.

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Trotzke, Andreas and Tom Rankin. 2020. Editorial: Introduction to Pedagogical Linguistics. Pedagogical Linguistics 1:1, pp. 1–7
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
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
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Rankin, Tom. 2014. 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
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
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
Schiftner, Barbara and Tom Rankin. 2012. 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
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Rankin, Tom and Barbara Schiftner. 2011. Marginal prepositions in learner English: Applying local corpus data. Applying Corpus Linguistics, Farr, Fiona and Anne O'Keeffe (eds.), pp. 412–434
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