All Stories

  1. The crystallization of language over time

    Article • International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, August 2026, John Benjamins

    Freek Van de Velde

  2. Testing the performance of S-curves for language change

    Article • Diachronica, March 2026, John Benjamins

    Freek Van de Velde

  3. Constraints and lexical conditioning in the dative alternation

    Article • Languages in Contrast, September 2024, John Benjamins

    Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, Freek Van de Velde

  4. Diachrony and Diachronica

    Article • Diachronica, December 2023, John Benjamins

    Professor Claire Bowern, ADITI Lahiri, Dr Anne Breitbarth, David Goldstein, Freek Van de Velde, George Walkden

  5. What are the determinants of survival curves of words?

    Article • Evolutionary Linguistic Theory, December 2020, John Benjamins

    Freek Van de Velde

  6. On cause and correlation in language change

    Article • Language Dynamics and Change, February 2020, Brill

    Malte Rosemeyer, Freek Van de Velde

  7. Reassessing the evolution of West Germanic preterite inflection

    Article • Diachronica, July 2019, John Benjamins

    Freek Van de Velde, Isabeau De Smet

  8. Constructional contamination in morphology and syntax

    Article • Constructions and Frames, December 2018, John Benjamins

    Freek Van de Velde, Isabeau De Smet

  9. Comparing explanations for the Complexity Principle: evidence from argument realization

    Article • Language and Cognition, September 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Freek Van de Velde, Stef Grondelaers

  10. A multivariate analysis of the partitive genitive in Dutch. Bringing quantitative data into a theoretical discussion

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

    Freek Van de Velde

  11. La duplicación de clíticos en español como estrategia de marcación inversa

    Article • Revue Romane Langue et littérature International Journal of Romance Languages and Literatures, December 2017, John Benjamins

    Freek Van de Velde

  12. Exaptation and Language Change

    Article • February 2016, John Benjamins

    Professor Muriel Norde, Freek Van de Velde

  13. Constructional contamination: How does it work and how do we measure it?

    Article • Folia Linguistica, January 2016, De Gruyter

    Freek Van de Velde

  14. On Multiple Source Constructions in Language Change

    Article • November 2015, John Benjamins

    Hendrik De Smet, Dr Lobke Ghesquiere, Freek Van de Velde

  15. The discourse motivation for split-ergative alignment in Dutch nominalisations (and elsewhere)

    Article • Pragmatics Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), June 2015, John Benjamins

    Freek Van de Velde

  16. Intersubjectivity and Intersubjectification in Grammar and Discourse

    Article • August 2014, John Benjamins

    Dr Lobke Ghesquiere, Freek Van de Velde

  17. Adjectives in Germanic and Romance

    Article • January 2014, John Benjamins

    Freek Van de Velde

  18. On multiple source constructions in language change

    Article • Studies in Language, October 2013, John Benjamins

    Hendrik De Smet, Dr Lobke Ghesquiere, Freek Van de Velde

  19. On multiple source constructions in language change

    Article • Studies in Language, October 2013, John Benjamins

    Hendrik De Smet, Dr Lobke Ghesquiere, Freek Van de Velde

  20. Serving two masters

    Article • Studies in Language, October 2013, John Benjamins

    Hendrik De Smet, Freek Van de Velde

  21. Intersections of Intersubjectivity

    Article • English Text Construction, April 2012, John Benjamins

    Dr Lobke Ghesquiere, Freek Van de Velde

  22. Intersections of intersubjectivity

    Article • English Text Construction, April 2012, John Benjamins

    Dr Lobke Ghesquiere, Freek Van de Velde

  23. Intersubjectivity and intersubjectification

    Article • English Text Construction, April 2012, John Benjamins

    Dr Lobke Ghesquiere, Freek Van de Velde

  24. Review of Givón (2009): The genesis of syntactic complexity, Diachrony, ontogeny, neurocognition, evolution

    Article • ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics, January 2012, John Benjamins

    Freek Van de Velde

  25. Review of García Velasco & Rijkhoff (2008): The noun phrase in Functional Discourse Grammar

    Article • Functions of Language, December 2010, John Benjamins

    Freek Van de Velde

  26. Interpersonal modification in the English noun phrase

    Article • Functions of Language, December 2007, John Benjamins

    Freek Van de Velde