Olaf Mikkelsen
List of John Benjamins publications for which Olaf Mikkelsen plays a role.
Articles
2024 Future constructions in English and Norwegian: A contrastive corpus study Linguistic Constructions, Trawiński, Beata, Marc Kupietz and Kristel Proost (eds.), pp. 170–196 | Article
The choice between the future constructions will/shall and BE going to is among the most well-investigated topics in English linguistics. A host of semantic, pragmatic, and syntactic factors has been suggested to drive the alternation between these constructions. Recent research has taken a… read more
2022 Competing future constructions and the Complexity Principle: A contrastive outlook Broadening the Spectrum of Corpus Linguistics: New approaches to variability and change, Flach, Susanne and Martin Hilpert (eds.), pp. 9–40 | Chapter
This paper presents a contrastive study on the role of syntactic complexity in the choice between different future constructions in English and Norwegian. Previous work on the English future alternation (BE going to vs. will) has shown that going to is preferred in syntactically complex contexts. read more