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  1. Choice and complexity: In naturally occurring data, absolute complexity does not necessarily trigger relative complexity

    Article • Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads, February 2026, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  2. Isomorphism-inspired theorising about optionality and variation: no empirical support from English grammar

    Article • English Language and Linguistics, May 2025, Cambridge University Press

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  3. Optionality, Complexity, Difficulty: The Next Step: A Commentary on “Complexity and Difficulty in Second Language Acquisition: A Theoretical and Methodological Overview”

    Article • Language Learning, October 2024, Wiley

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  4. Future-time reference in spoken EFL

    Article • Journal of Second Language Studies, October 2024, John Benjamins

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, Ms Magali Paquot

  5. Modeling Register Distances Based on Variations in Language Use

    Article • Register Studies, October 2024, John Benjamins

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, Ms. Xu Zhang

  6. Constraints and lexical conditioning in the dative alternation

    Article • Languages in Contrast, September 2024, John Benjamins

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, Freek Van de Velde

  7. Modeling the locative alternation in Mandarin Chinese

    Article • International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, January 2024, John Benjamins

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  8. Expanding the scope of grammatical variation: towards a comprehensive account of genitive variation across registers

    Article • English Language and Linguistics, December 2023, Cambridge University Press

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  9. Animacy effects in the English genitive alternation: comparing native speakers and EFL learner judgments with corpus data

    Article • Language and Cognition, November 2023, Cambridge University Press

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  10. Processing and prescriptivism as constraints on language variation and change

    Article • October 2023, John Benjamins

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  11. A variationist perspective on the comparative complexity of four registers at the intersection of mode and formality

    Article • Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, November 2022, De Gruyter

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  12. Alternation phenomena and language proficiency: the genitive alternation in the spoken language of EFL learners

    Article • Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, October 2022, De Gruyter

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  13. Assessing the complexity of lectal competence: the register-specificity of the dative alternation aftergive

    Article • Cognitive Linguistics, September 2022, De Gruyter

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  14. How register-specific is probabilistic grammatical knowledge?

    Article • November 2021, John Benjamins

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  15. Mapping Eurolects

    Article • Languages in Contrast, December 2020, John Benjamins

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, Laura Mori

  16. Register in variationist linguistics

    Article • Register Studies, April 2019, John Benjamins

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  17. Restricting the restrictive relativizer

    Article • Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, September 2018, De Gruyter

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  18. Probabilistic corpus-based dialectometry

    Article • Journal of Linguistic Geography, April 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  19. General introduction: A comparative perspective on probabilistic variation in grammar

    Article • Glossa a journal of general linguistics, January 2018, Ubiquity Press, Ltd.

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  20. Moral processing deficit in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia is associated with facial emotion recognition and brain changes in default mode and salience network areas

    Article • Brain and Behavior, November 2017, Wiley

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  21. Spoken syntax in a comparative perspective: The dative and genitive alternation in varieties of English

    Article • Glossa a journal of general linguistics, September 2017, Ubiquity Press, Ltd.

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  22. Variationist sociolinguistics and corpus-based variationist linguistics: overlap and cross-pollination potential

    Article • The Canadian Journal of Linguistics / La revue canadienne de linguistique, June 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  23. Stability and Fluidity in Syntactic Variation World-Wide

    Article • Journal of English Linguistics, March 2017, SAGE Publications

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  24. Cognitive indigenization effects in the English dative alternation

    Article • Cognitive Linguistics, January 2017, De Gruyter

    Jason Grafmiller, Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  25. Compressing learner language: An information-theoretic measure of complexity in SLA production data

    Article • Second language Research, September 2016, SAGE Publications

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  26. Around the world in three alternations

    Article • English World-Wide A Journal of Varieties of English, June 2016, John Benjamins

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, Jason Grafmiller

  27. A lectometric analysis of aggregated lexical variation in written Standard English with Semantic Vector Space models

    Article • International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, March 2016, John Benjamins

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  28. Toward more accountability: Modeling ternary genitive variation in Late Modern English

    Article • Language Variation and Change, February 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, dr. Karlien Franco

  29. An analytic-synthetic spiral in the history of English

    Article • February 2016, John Benjamins

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  30. About text frequencies in historical linguistics: Disentangling environmental and grammatical change

    Article • Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, January 2016, De Gruyter

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  31. Which-hunting and the Standard English relative clause

    Article • Language, January 2015, Project Muse

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  32. Which-hunting and the Standard English relative clause: Online Supplement: Automatic Zero-Relative Detection

    Article • Language, January 2015, Project Muse

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  33. Regional Variation in Written American English

    Article • January 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  34. Quirky quadratures: on rhythm and weight as constraints on genitive variation in an unconventional data set

    Article • English Language and Linguistics, June 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  35. Measuring analyticity and syntheticity in creoles

    Article • Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, February 2014, John Benjamins

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, Bernd Kortmann, Professor Jeff Siegel

  36. Aggregating Dialectology, Typology, and Register Analysis

    Article • January 2014, De Gruyter

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  37. Diachronic Probabilistic Grammar

    Article • English Language and Linguistics, December 2013, The English Language Linguistics Society of Korea

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  38. Dative and genitive variability in Late Modern English

    Article • Diachronica, October 2013, John Benjamins

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  39. Warren Maguire and April McMahon (eds.), Analysing variation in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xiii + 332. ISBN: 978-0521-89866-9.

    Article • English Language and Linguistics, February 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  40. The great regression

    Article • January 2013, John Benjamins

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  41. Space in Language and Linguistics

    Article • January 2013, De Gruyter

    Professor Martin Hilpert, Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  42. Variation und Wandel

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  43. Animacy in early New Zealand English

    Article • English World-Wide A Journal of Varieties of English, October 2012, John Benjamins

    Professor Marianne Hundt, Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  44. Linguistic Complexity

    Article • January 2012, De Gruyter

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  45. Typological profiling

    Article • May 2011, John Benjamins

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  46. Parameters of morphosyntactic variation in World Englishes: prospects and limitations of searching for universals

    Article • January 2011, De Gruyter

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  47. Holistic corpus-based dialectology

    Article • Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada, January 2011, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  48. Linguistic Simplicity and Complexity: Why do Languages Undress?

    Article • Language Dynamics and Change, January 2011, Brill

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  49. The English genitive alternation in a cognitive sociolinguistics perspective

    Article • January 2010, De Gruyter

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  50. Corpus-based Dialectometry: Aggregate Morphosyntactic Variability In British English Dialects*

    Article • December 2009, Edinburgh University Press

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  51. The morphosyntax of varieties of English worldwide: A quantitative perspective

    Article • Lingua, November 2009, Elsevier

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  52. Typological parameters of intralingual variability: Grammatical analyticity versus syntheticity in varieties of English

    Article • Language Variation and Change, October 2009, Cambridge University Press

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  53. World Englishes between simplification and complexification

    Article • September 2009, John Benjamins

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  54. Grammatical Variation in British English Dialects

    Article • January 2009, Cambridge University Press

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  55. Corpus-based Dialectometry: Aggregate Morphosyntactic Variability in British English Dialects*

    Article • International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing, October 2008, Edinburgh University Press

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  56. Recent changes in the function and frequency of Standard English genitive constructions: a multivariate analysis of tagged corpora

    Article • English Language and Linguistics, November 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  57. What Do Economists Talk About? A Linguistic Analysis of Published Writing in Economic Journals

    Article • American Journal of Economics and Sociology, April 2007, Wiley

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  58. Joybrato Mukherjee, English ditransitive verbs: aspects of theory, description and a usage-based model. Rodopi, 2005. Pp. IX + 295. ISBN 90-420-1934-4

    Article • English Language and Linguistics, March 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  59. Book reviews

    Article • Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, January 2006, De Gruyter

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  60. Language users as creatures of habit: A corpus-based analysis of persistence in spoken English

    Article • Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, January 2005, De Gruyter

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  61. Be Going to Versus Will/Shall

    Article • Journal of English Linguistics, December 2003, SAGE Publications

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  62. Integrating the perspectives on language and space

    Article • De Gruyter

    Professor Martin Hilpert, Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  63. An information-theoretic approach to assess linguistic complexity

    Article • De Gruyter

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  64. Typological profile: L1 varieties

    Article • De Gruyter

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  65. Recontextualizing language complexity

    Article • De Gruyter

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  66. Outlook and concluding remarks

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  67. component-loading matrix

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  68. Frequency effects in lexical sociolectometry are insubstantial

    Article • De Gruyter

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  69. Introduction: Linguistic complexity Second Language Acquisition, indigenization, contact

    Article • De Gruyter

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  70. Forests, trees, corpora, and dialect grammars

    Article • De Gruyter

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  71. Grammatical variation

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  72. Analysing aggregated linguistic data

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  73. Geography is overrated

    Article • De Gruyter

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  74. Introduction: The text-feature-aggregation pipeline in variation studies

    Article • De Gruyter

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  75. Culturally conditioned language change? A multivariate analysis of genitive constructions in ARCHER

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  76. Variability in verb complementation in Late Modern English: finite vs. non-finite patterns

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi