Marianne Hundt
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 620755 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Marianne Hundt |
| NOMBRES | Marianne |
| APELLIDO | Hundt |
| FIRMA | HUNDT M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Zurich |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6045-2314 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1997 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Worldwide Perspectives on English Usage
The study of English usage has to take account of changes in grammar, word choice and nuances of communication. In recent decades, developments in linguistic methodologies have catalysed modifications In our approach to linguistic variation, with perspectives changing from a primarily prescriptive to a more descriptive approach. Bringing together contributions from a team of distinguished scholars, this book explores sociolinguistic and structura…
How landmark is this? On the spread of N>A category shifts in Late Modern English
Noun (N) and Adjective (A) are distinct word classes but share certain features. Some noun uses share more features with how adjectives are used, thus contributing (over time) to a shift from N to A. There is evidence that the use of nouns as adjectives is on the increase (Denison 2013). Earlier work (De Smet 2012) shows key and fun taking different paths shifting to A, apparently because the former is a count and the latter a noncount noun. This…
Superlative Objoid Constructions in British and American English
This paper investigates regional variation in Superlative Objoid constructions (SOCs) and their prepositional variant ( at‐ SOCs). SOCs combine a possessive pronoun with a superlative adjective. These function as manner‐degree modifiers in a context where the possessive is in postverbal position and correlative with the subject, as in they tried their hardest (‘they tried very hard’). This study adds to previous research by focussing on the produ…
Tracing the development of the perfect alternation in Early Modern English
On the basis of just under 5,050 examples of perfect constructions, this paper traces the development of the be:have perfect alternation in English between the 1620s and 1750s. For a core group of 18 verbs, the study investigates the role that language-internal and language-external predictor variables played in the choice of auxiliary. Multifactorial modelling reveals that language-internal factors such as modality, negation, clause-type and ten…
The be ‐ versus get‐ passive alternation in world Englishes
Multifactorial studies of the be:get ‐passive alternation are still rare. On the basis of the International Corpus of English , this is the first investigation to use mixed modelling for the passive alternation in world Englishes. Overall, our findings reveal that regional differences are far less important than language‐internal constraints, with Inner and Outer Circle varieties largely sharing a core grammar. Additionally, while there is qualit…
A sisterhood of constructions? A structural priming approach to modelling links in the network of Objoid Constructions
A central aim of Construction Grammar is to model links within the construct-i-con. This paper investigates three constructions that share one property: an atypical element in the object slot. The constructions are therefore not prototypically transitive. Structural priming (implemented with an automatic maze variant of self-paced reading) is used to test hypotheses on the relation among the Reaction Objoid ( She smiled her thanks ), the Cognate …
Differences in syntactic annotation affect retrieval
Prepositional phrases (PPs) play an important part in English argument structure constructions, but pose considerable challenges for linguistic investigations of any kind. In addition to the fact that PP-attachment is generally notoriously difficult to model computationally, a particularly striking methodological challenge in investigating verb-dependent PPs across (synchronic and/or diachronic) corpora is that such cross-corpus studies may have …
N-is Focalizers as Semi-fixed Constructions
N-is constructions combine a variable article and a shell noun such as thing, fact, or problem with copula be. As discourse markers at the left periphery, they focalize information that follows. Using data from a large online newspaper corpus, this study is the first to investigate the variable syntactic integration (bare versus that-clause) of focalizers across a broad range of World Englishes. Variability in syntactic integration reflects the r…
(The) fact is … / (Die) Tatsache ist … focaliser constructions in English and German are similar but subject to different constraints
N-is/ist constructions are elements in the left periphery of English/German sentences that have developed pragmatic meaning: they can be used as discourse markers with various functions, depending on the nominal element that is used in the construction. We use evidence from parallel and comparable corpora of English and German to investigate variable article use in these focaliser constructions and model factors that may play a role in article om…
Epicentral influence via agent‐based modelling
One limitation of corpus‐based research into the epicentre hypothesis is that it only provides information on structural similarity/difference of varieties but not on the role that attitudes may play in the choice of variants in a pluricentric language. In our case study on verb complementation patterns, we use simulation as a complementary methodology. We build an agent‐based model for two speaker communities with English as a second language (E…
On models and modelling
World Englishes (WE) research has been invested in getting to grips with the diversity of different Englishes and in making sense of their structural properties. The first research strand led to a proliferation of theoretical models, the second to comparative research relying increasingly on sophisticated statistical modelling. The connection between these research strands is not always as clear as we might wish, and occasionally even rather tenu…
‘My language, my identity’
One result of colonial and post-colonial migration is the development of large diaspora communities. The Indian diaspora is currently one of the largest world-wide. Over 20 million people of Indian descent live outside of India, many of them in an English-speaking country. Maintenance of the heritage language and use of the majority language are important aspects of identity construction among members of such diaspora communities. Matters become …
Lieselotte Anderwald
Debra Ziegeler. 2015. Converging Grammars
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Identity in the London Indian diaspora
For second-generation members of a diaspora community, ethnic and cultural affiliation are less straightforward than for the first generation. We compare information on identity construction in London's Indian Diaspora with the participants' linguistic integration into the host community. Our study is novel and exploratory in that it combines quantitative, variationist methodology with a qualitative approach. We employ two standard sociolinguisti…
The Changing English Language
Bringing together experts from both historical linguistics and psychology, this volume addresses core factors in language change from the perspectives of both fields. It explores the potential (and limitations) of such an interdisciplinary approach, covering the following factors: frequency, salience, chunking, priming, analogy, ambiguity and acquisition. Easily accessible, the book features chapters by psycholinguists presenting cutting edge res…
Attitudes in Fiji towards varieties of English
In Schneider's (2007) influential model, the emergence of positive attitudes towards the local, post-colonial variety is an important step for the evolution of new Englishes, not least of all because it is likely to mark a shift from an external towards an internal norm. This paper explores attitudes towards varieties of English among a group of young Fiji citizens in tertiary education. The results indicate that British English is still a strong…
The times they are a-changin’ — and so are the editors of EWW
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English as a Contact Language
Recent developments in contact linguistics suggest considerable overlap of branches such as historical linguistics, variationist sociolinguistics, pidgin/creole linguistics, language acquisition, etc. This book highlights the complexity of contact-induced language change throughout the history of English by bringing together cutting-edge research from these fields. Special focus is on recent debates surrounding substratal influence in earlier for…
Animacy in early New Zealand English
The literature suggests that animacy effects in present-day spoken New Zealand English (NZE) differ from animacy effects in other varieties of English. We seek to determine if such differences have a history in earlier NZE writing or not. We revisit two grammatical phenomena — progressives and genitives — that are well known to be sensitive to animacy effects, and we study these phenomena in corpora sampling 19th- and early 20th-century written N…
The hypothetical subjunctive in South Asian Englishes
This paper studies the distribution and usage patterns in hypothetical if -clauses in a set of South Asian Englishes (SAEs), namely Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Sri Lankan English on the basis of web-derived newspaper data. Comparative evidence comes from newspaper texts in the British National Corpus (BNC). It looks at the use of subjunctive were, indicative was and modal would as variant verb forms in the if -clause. The qualitative analy…
Anatol Stefanowitsch & Stefan Th. Gries (Hg.). 2006. Corpus-Based Approaches to Metaphor and Metonymy (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs). Berlin, New York
Article Anatol Stefanowitsch & Stefan Th. Gries (Hg.). 2006. Corpus-Based Approaches to Metaphor and Metonymy (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs). Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter. vi, 319 S was published on August 1, 2011 in the journal Zeitschrift für Rezensionen zur germanistischen Sprachwissenschaft (volume 3, issue 2).
Change in Contemporary English
Based on the systematic analysis of large amounts of computer-readable text, this book shows how the English language has been changing in the recent past, often in unexpected and previously undocumented ways. The study is based on a group of matching corpora, known as the 'Brown family' of corpora, supplemented by a range of other corpus materials, both written and spoken, drawn mainly from the later twentieth century. Among the matters receivin…
Moodling beyond Bollywood
A report on an interdisciplinary e-course experiment on language, literature and culture in the Indian Diaspora. One of the rich potentials of the World Wide Web is to enable international and interdisciplinary projects by utilizing e-learning technologies. Further, contemporary students are used to structuring much of their public and private life and learning around the use of electronic technologies. Certainly, when learning, thinking and work…
Short term diachronic shifts in part-of-speech frequencies
The paper presents a comparison of tag frequencies in two matching one-million word reference corpora of British standard English, the 1961 LOB-corpus and its 1991 “clone” produced at Freiburg. Both corpora were tagged using a version of the CLAWS part-of-speech-tagger developed at Lancaster, and part of the material was post-edited manually in Freiburg to assess the accuracy of the automatic procedure. The comparison of tag frequencies is an ess…
Agile" and "Uptight" Genres
This paper is a follow-up study to previous investigations based on the analysis of parallel British and American corpora from the early 1960s and 1990s. It focuses on variables that are suspected to contribute to the growing "colloquicdisation " of the norms of written English, that is, a narrowing of the gap between spoken and written norms. Such a shift in stylistic preferences has been observed in both socio-cultural approaches to language an…
Attitudes in Fiji towards varieties of English
In Schneider's (2007) influential model, the emergence of positive attitudes towards the local, post-colonial variety is an important step for the evolution of new Englishes, not least of all because it is likely to mark a shift from an external towards an internal norm. This paper explores attitudes towards varieties of English among a group of young Fiji citizens in tertiary education. The results indicate that British English is still a strong…
The hypothetical subjunctive in South Asian Englishes
This paper studies the distribution and usage patterns in hypothetical if -clauses in a set of South Asian Englishes (SAEs), namely Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Sri Lankan English on the basis of web-derived newspaper data. Comparative evidence comes from newspaper texts in the British National Corpus (BNC). It looks at the use of subjunctive were, indicative was and modal would as variant verb forms in the if -clause. The qualitative analy…
A sisterhood of constructions? A structural priming approach to modelling links in the network of Objoid Constructions
A central aim of Construction Grammar is to model links within the construct-i-con. This paper investigates three constructions that share one property: an atypical element in the object slot. The constructions are therefore not prototypically transitive. Structural priming (implemented with an automatic maze variant of self-paced reading) is used to test hypotheses on the relation among the Reaction Objoid ( She smiled her thanks ), the Cognate …
Identity in the London Indian diaspora
For second-generation members of a diaspora community, ethnic and cultural affiliation are less straightforward than for the first generation. We compare information on identity construction in London's Indian Diaspora with the participants' linguistic integration into the host community. Our study is novel and exploratory in that it combines quantitative, variationist methodology with a qualitative approach. We employ two standard sociolinguisti…
The times they are a-changin’ — and so are the editors of EWW
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Animacy in early New Zealand English
The literature suggests that animacy effects in present-day spoken New Zealand English (NZE) differ from animacy effects in other varieties of English. We seek to determine if such differences have a history in earlier NZE writing or not. We revisit two grammatical phenomena — progressives and genitives — that are well known to be sensitive to animacy effects, and we study these phenomena in corpora sampling 19th- and early 20th-century written N…
Idioms
Agile" and "Uptight" Genres
This paper is a follow-up study to previous investigations based on the analysis of parallel British and American corpora from the early 1960s and 1990s. It focuses on variables that are suspected to contribute to the growing "colloquicdisation " of the norms of written English, that is, a narrowing of the gap between spoken and written norms. Such a shift in stylistic preferences has been observed in both socio-cultural approaches to language an…
What corpora tell us about the grammaticalisation of voice in get -constructions
Grammaticalisation studies are a potential meeting ground for theoretical linguistics and corpus-based approaches. The present paper uses evidence from the ARCHER corpus to investigate the relationship between frequency and the grammaticalisation of the get -passive. It seeks to verify whether the grammaticalisation of the passive function is reflected in an increase in the overall frequency of get , and whether grammaticalised patterns of get ha…
Grammatical variation in national varieties of English — The corpus-based approach
L'A. utilise la methode des corpus paralleles pour mettre en evidence les differences grammaticales entre les varietes nationales de la langue anglaise. Le but de l'etude est d'apporter aux enseignants un eclairage nouveau sur la question afin de les guider dans leur choix d'un modele adapte a leur classe et montrer a l'eleve que plusieurs normes peuvent coexister au sein d'une meme langue
Short term diachronic shifts in part-of-speech frequencies
The paper presents a comparison of tag frequencies in two matching one-million word reference corpora of British standard English, the 1961 LOB-corpus and its 1991 “clone” produced at Freiburg. Both corpora were tagged using a version of the CLAWS part-of-speech-tagger developed at Lancaster, and part of the material was post-edited manually in Freiburg to assess the accuracy of the automatic procedure. The comparison of tag frequencies is an ess…
Change in Contemporary English
Based on the systematic analysis of large amounts of computer-readable text, this book shows how the English language has been changing in the recent past, often in unexpected and previously undocumented ways. The study is based on a group of matching corpora, known as the 'Brown family' of corpora, supplemented by a range of other corpus materials, both written and spoken, drawn mainly from the later twentieth century. Among the matters receivin…
Moodling beyond Bollywood
A report on an interdisciplinary e-course experiment on language, literature and culture in the Indian Diaspora. One of the rich potentials of the World Wide Web is to enable international and interdisciplinary projects by utilizing e-learning technologies. Further, contemporary students are used to structuring much of their public and private life and learning around the use of electronic technologies. Certainly, when learning, thinking and work…
Anatol Stefanowitsch & Stefan Th. Gries (Hg.). 2006. Corpus-Based Approaches to Metaphor and Metonymy (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs). Berlin, New York
Article Anatol Stefanowitsch & Stefan Th. Gries (Hg.). 2006. Corpus-Based Approaches to Metaphor and Metonymy (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs). Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter. vi, 319 S was published on August 1, 2011 in the journal Zeitschrift für Rezensionen zur germanistischen Sprachwissenschaft (volume 3, issue 2).
Animacy in early New Zealand English
The literature suggests that animacy effects in present-day spoken New Zealand English (NZE) differ from animacy effects in other varieties of English. We seek to determine if such differences have a history in earlier NZE writing or not. We revisit two grammatical phenomena — progressives and genitives — that are well known to be sensitive to animacy effects, and we study these phenomena in corpora sampling 19th- and early 20th-century written N…
The hypothetical subjunctive in South Asian Englishes
This paper studies the distribution and usage patterns in hypothetical if -clauses in a set of South Asian Englishes (SAEs), namely Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Sri Lankan English on the basis of web-derived newspaper data. Comparative evidence comes from newspaper texts in the British National Corpus (BNC). It looks at the use of subjunctive were, indicative was and modal would as variant verb forms in the if -clause. The qualitative analy…
English as a Contact Language
Recent developments in contact linguistics suggest considerable overlap of branches such as historical linguistics, variationist sociolinguistics, pidgin/creole linguistics, language acquisition, etc. This book highlights the complexity of contact-induced language change throughout the history of English by bringing together cutting-edge research from these fields. Special focus is on recent debates surrounding substratal influence in earlier for…
The times they are a-changin’ — and so are the editors of EWW
Preview this article: The times they are a-changin’ — and so are the editors of EWW, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/eww.35.1.01sch-1.gif
Attitudes in Fiji towards varieties of English
In Schneider's (2007) influential model, the emergence of positive attitudes towards the local, post-colonial variety is an important step for the evolution of new Englishes, not least of all because it is likely to mark a shift from an external towards an internal norm. This paper explores attitudes towards varieties of English among a group of young Fiji citizens in tertiary education. The results indicate that British English is still a strong…
The Changing English Language
Bringing together experts from both historical linguistics and psychology, this volume addresses core factors in language change from the perspectives of both fields. It explores the potential (and limitations) of such an interdisciplinary approach, covering the following factors: frequency, salience, chunking, priming, analogy, ambiguity and acquisition. Easily accessible, the book features chapters by psycholinguists presenting cutting edge res…
Lieselotte Anderwald
Debra Ziegeler. 2015. Converging Grammars
Preview this article: Debra Ziegeler. 2015. Converging Grammars: Constructions in Singapore English, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/eww.00012.hun-1.gif
Identity in the London Indian diaspora
For second-generation members of a diaspora community, ethnic and cultural affiliation are less straightforward than for the first generation. We compare information on identity construction in London's Indian Diaspora with the participants' linguistic integration into the host community. Our study is novel and exploratory in that it combines quantitative, variationist methodology with a qualitative approach. We employ two standard sociolinguisti…
‘My language, my identity’
One result of colonial and post-colonial migration is the development of large diaspora communities. The Indian diaspora is currently one of the largest world-wide. Over 20 million people of Indian descent live outside of India, many of them in an English-speaking country. Maintenance of the heritage language and use of the majority language are important aspects of identity construction among members of such diaspora communities. Matters become …
On models and modelling
World Englishes (WE) research has been invested in getting to grips with the diversity of different Englishes and in making sense of their structural properties. The first research strand led to a proliferation of theoretical models, the second to comparative research relying increasingly on sophisticated statistical modelling. The connection between these research strands is not always as clear as we might wish, and occasionally even rather tenu…
N-is Focalizers as Semi-fixed Constructions
N-is constructions combine a variable article and a shell noun such as thing, fact, or problem with copula be. As discourse markers at the left periphery, they focalize information that follows. Using data from a large online newspaper corpus, this study is the first to investigate the variable syntactic integration (bare versus that-clause) of focalizers across a broad range of World Englishes. Variability in syntactic integration reflects the r…
(The) fact is … / (Die) Tatsache ist … focaliser constructions in English and German are similar but subject to different constraints
N-is/ist constructions are elements in the left periphery of English/German sentences that have developed pragmatic meaning: they can be used as discourse markers with various functions, depending on the nominal element that is used in the construction. We use evidence from parallel and comparable corpora of English and German to investigate variable article use in these focaliser constructions and model factors that may play a role in article om…
Epicentral influence via agent‐based modelling
One limitation of corpus‐based research into the epicentre hypothesis is that it only provides information on structural similarity/difference of varieties but not on the role that attitudes may play in the choice of variants in a pluricentric language. In our case study on verb complementation patterns, we use simulation as a complementary methodology. We build an agent‐based model for two speaker communities with English as a second language (E…
Differences in syntactic annotation affect retrieval
Prepositional phrases (PPs) play an important part in English argument structure constructions, but pose considerable challenges for linguistic investigations of any kind. In addition to the fact that PP-attachment is generally notoriously difficult to model computationally, a particularly striking methodological challenge in investigating verb-dependent PPs across (synchronic and/or diachronic) corpora is that such cross-corpus studies may have …
The be ‐ versus get‐ passive alternation in world Englishes
Multifactorial studies of the be:get ‐passive alternation are still rare. On the basis of the International Corpus of English , this is the first investigation to use mixed modelling for the passive alternation in world Englishes. Overall, our findings reveal that regional differences are far less important than language‐internal constraints, with Inner and Outer Circle varieties largely sharing a core grammar. Additionally, while there is qualit…
A sisterhood of constructions? A structural priming approach to modelling links in the network of Objoid Constructions
A central aim of Construction Grammar is to model links within the construct-i-con. This paper investigates three constructions that share one property: an atypical element in the object slot. The constructions are therefore not prototypically transitive. Structural priming (implemented with an automatic maze variant of self-paced reading) is used to test hypotheses on the relation among the Reaction Objoid ( She smiled her thanks ), the Cognate …
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