Benedikt Heller

List of John Benjamins publications for which Benedikt Heller plays a role.

Articles

In this paper, we are exploring the history of the genitive alternation (of- vs. s-genitive) in Singapore English based on corpus data covering both British English (as the historical input variety) and Singapore English (as the target variety whose diachronic development we are interested in).… read more
Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt, Jason Grafmiller, Benedikt Heller and Melanie Röthlisberger 2016 Around the world in three alternations: Modeling syntactic variation in varieties of EnglishEnglish World-Wide 37:2, pp. 109–137 | Article
We sketch a project that marries probabilistic grammar research to scholarship on World Englishes, thus synthesizing two previously rather disjoint lines of research into one unifying project with a coherent focus. This synthesis is hoped to advance usage-based theoretical linguistics by adopting… read more