Olaf Mikkelsen

List of John Benjamins publications for which Olaf Mikkelsen plays a role.

Article

Mikkelsen, Olaf and Stefan Hartmann 2022 Competing future constructions and the Complexity Principle: A contrastive outlookBroadening the Spectrum of Corpus Linguistics: New approaches to variability and change, Flach, Susanne and Martin Hilpert (eds.), pp. 8–39 | 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