Alexandra Engel
List of John Benjamins publications for which Alexandra Engel plays a role.
Articles
2024 Constraints and lexical conditioning in the dative alternation: A cross-linguistic analysis of English and Dutch Languages in Contrast: Online-First Articles | Article
This article presents a cross-linguistic variationist study of the dative alternations in English (I gave Tom a present vs. I gave a present to Tom) and Dutch (Ik gaf Tom een cadeau vs. Ik gaf een cadeau aan Tom). We use logistic mixed-effects regression and lasso regression to assess the… read more
2021 Chapter 3. How register-specific is probabilistic grammatical knowledge? A programmatic sketch and a case study on the dative alternation with give Corpus-based Approaches to Register Variation, Seoane, Elena and Douglas Biber (eds.), pp. 51–84 | Chapter
While there is preliminary evidence about the importance of register in linguistic choice-making processes, systematic studies focusing on the interaction between register and language-internal constraints are lacking in variationist linguistics. This contribution sketches an ongoing project in… read more