Karlien Franco
Biographic Data
| ID | 4054992 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karlien Franco |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karlien |
| FAMILY NAME | Franco |
| SIGNATURE | FRANCO K |
| AFFILIATIONS | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6499-265X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The rise of get: Grammar, semantics and society in the evolution of the passive
According to recent research, the get -passive, e.g. get arrested , rather than the be -passive, was arrested , has been increasing in frequency since 1850 (Hundt 2001). While some researchers argue that the two variants remain differentiated by semantic nuances like adversativity and agent animacy (e.g. Quirk et al. 1985: 167–71), others assume they are interchangeable and vary according to social factors (Weiner & Labov 1983). Recent corpus-bas…
Women, blood, and dangerous things: Socio-cultural variation in the conceptualization of menstruation
This study examines a collection of expressions for the taboo topic of menstruation in Dutch, German, and Mandarin Chinese. A model for the identification of conceptualization patterns in taboo verbalizations is set up, analyzing each expression according to the X-phemistic mechanisms and, if applicable, the metaphorical source domains or metonymic vehicles at its origin. The various conceptualizations of menstruation are approached from a socio-…
Introduction: What are alternations and how should we study them
The research paradigm of alternation studies is forming an increasingly large share of the empirical foundations of usage-based linguistics. As the paradigm is essentially an amalgamation of research traditions from various subfields of linguistics, including sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics, and construction grammar, it sports various definitions of the concept of “alternation” and various ways of conducting an alternat…
The most stable it's ever been: The preterit/present perfect alternation in spoken Ontario English
English tense/aspect-marking is an area where variation abounds and where many theories have been formulated. Diachronic studies of the preterit/present perfect alternation indicate that the present perfect (e.g. I have eaten already ) has been losing ground to the preterit (e.g. I ate already ) (e.g. Elsness 1997, but see Hundt & Smith 2009, Werner 2014). However, few studies have examined this alternation in vernacular speech. This article fill…
Null se constructions in Brazilian and European Portuguese: Morphosyntactic deletion or emergence of new constructions
Se constructions designate a set of polysemous constructions along a transitivity continuum marked by the clitic se that perform various functions: reflexive/reciprocal, middle, anticausative, passive, and impersonal. A counterpart of these constructions without the clitic – the null se construction – is also attested. Based on an extensive usage-feature and profile-based analysis, and using multivariate statistical methods, we analyze, consideri…
InterestingFellowor Tough OldBird
English has many words to refer to an adult man (e.g., man, guy, dude), and these are undergoing change in the Ontario dialects. This article analyzes the distribution of these and related forms using data collected in Ontario, Canada. In total, 6,788 tokens for 17 communities were extracted and analyzed with a comparative sociolinguistics methodology for social and geographic factors. The results demonstrate a substantive language change in prog…
Extending the Scope of Lectometry
This special issue brings together a collection of papers that highlight recent advances in the field of lectometry. Lectometric research measures distances between various types of language varieties, such as dialects or sociolects. In addition to briefly sketching the development of the field, this introductory paper surveys the theoretical, methodological, and practical contributions a lectometric approach to language has to offer. We furtherm…
New - way(s) with - ward(s): Lexicalization, splitting and sociolinguistic patterns
This paper investigates the distribution of a morphological variable that has not gained much attention in the literature: adverbial -s versus -Ø. This morpheme predominantly occurs with adverbs ending in -ward(s) , like forward(s), afterward(s), and inward(s), or -way(s) , such as anyway(s) or halfway(s) . Using a large database of sociolinguistic interviews of Ontario English and an apparent-time perspective, we show that the use of the variant…
Concept characteristics and variation in lexical diversity in two Dutch dialect areas
Lexical diversity, the amount of lexical variation shown by a particular concept, varies between concepts. For the concept drunk , for instance, nearly 3000 English expressions exist, including blitzed, intoxicated , and hammered . For the concept sober , however, a significantly smaller number of lexical items is available, like sober or abstinent . While earlier variation studies have revealed that meaning-related concept characteristics correl…
Let's Agree to Disagree. (Variation in) the Assignment of Gender to Nominal Anglicisms in Dutch
In this paper, we investigate gender assignment to recently borrowed English loanwords in Dutch, introducing several innovations to the field of gender assignment to anglicisms. For example, we use multiple mixed-effects logistic regression to determine which factors underlie gender assignment in Dutch. This model indicates that there is variation in the degree of homogeneity in the speech community (that is, agreement among respondents) concerni…
Toward more accountability: Modeling ternary genitive variation in Late Modern English
Whereas the alternation between the s -genitive ( the New Year's message ) and the of -genitive ( the message of the New Year ) is well documented, our study offers a more accountable analysis of genitive variation by including noun-noun (NN)-genitives ( the New Year message ). We consider four different variable contexts ( s versus of , NN versus of , NN versus s , and NN versus s versus of ), which we analyze using regression analysis. The data…
Toward more accountability: Modeling ternary genitive variation in Late Modern English
Whereas the alternation between the s -genitive ( the New Year's message ) and the of -genitive ( the message of the New Year ) is well documented, our study offers a more accountable analysis of genitive variation by including noun-noun (NN)-genitives ( the New Year message ). We consider four different variable contexts ( s versus of , NN versus of , NN versus s , and NN versus s versus of ), which we analyze using regression analysis. The data…
InterestingFellowor Tough OldBird
English has many words to refer to an adult man (e.g., man, guy, dude), and these are undergoing change in the Ontario dialects. This article analyzes the distribution of these and related forms using data collected in Ontario, Canada. In total, 6,788 tokens for 17 communities were extracted and analyzed with a comparative sociolinguistics methodology for social and geographic factors. The results demonstrate a substantive language change in prog…
Null se constructions in Brazilian and European Portuguese: Morphosyntactic deletion or emergence of new constructions
Se constructions designate a set of polysemous constructions along a transitivity continuum marked by the clitic se that perform various functions: reflexive/reciprocal, middle, anticausative, passive, and impersonal. A counterpart of these constructions without the clitic – the null se construction – is also attested. Based on an extensive usage-feature and profile-based analysis, and using multivariate statistical methods, we analyze, consideri…
Concept characteristics and variation in lexical diversity in two Dutch dialect areas
Lexical diversity, the amount of lexical variation shown by a particular concept, varies between concepts. For the concept drunk , for instance, nearly 3000 English expressions exist, including blitzed, intoxicated , and hammered . For the concept sober , however, a significantly smaller number of lexical items is available, like sober or abstinent . While earlier variation studies have revealed that meaning-related concept characteristics correl…
New - way(s) with - ward(s): Lexicalization, splitting and sociolinguistic patterns
This paper investigates the distribution of a morphological variable that has not gained much attention in the literature: adverbial -s versus -Ø. This morpheme predominantly occurs with adverbs ending in -ward(s) , like forward(s), afterward(s), and inward(s), or -way(s) , such as anyway(s) or halfway(s) . Using a large database of sociolinguistic interviews of Ontario English and an apparent-time perspective, we show that the use of the variant…
Toward more accountability: Modeling ternary genitive variation in Late Modern English
Whereas the alternation between the s -genitive ( the New Year's message ) and the of -genitive ( the message of the New Year ) is well documented, our study offers a more accountable analysis of genitive variation by including noun-noun (NN)-genitives ( the New Year message ). We consider four different variable contexts ( s versus of , NN versus of , NN versus s , and NN versus s versus of ), which we analyze using regression analysis. The data…
Let's Agree to Disagree. (Variation in) the Assignment of Gender to Nominal Anglicisms in Dutch
In this paper, we investigate gender assignment to recently borrowed English loanwords in Dutch, introducing several innovations to the field of gender assignment to anglicisms. For example, we use multiple mixed-effects logistic regression to determine which factors underlie gender assignment in Dutch. This model indicates that there is variation in the degree of homogeneity in the speech community (that is, agreement among respondents) concerni…
Concept characteristics and variation in lexical diversity in two Dutch dialect areas
Lexical diversity, the amount of lexical variation shown by a particular concept, varies between concepts. For the concept drunk , for instance, nearly 3000 English expressions exist, including blitzed, intoxicated , and hammered . For the concept sober , however, a significantly smaller number of lexical items is available, like sober or abstinent . While earlier variation studies have revealed that meaning-related concept characteristics correl…
Extending the Scope of Lectometry
This special issue brings together a collection of papers that highlight recent advances in the field of lectometry. Lectometric research measures distances between various types of language varieties, such as dialects or sociolects. In addition to briefly sketching the development of the field, this introductory paper surveys the theoretical, methodological, and practical contributions a lectometric approach to language has to offer. We furtherm…
New - way(s) with - ward(s): Lexicalization, splitting and sociolinguistic patterns
This paper investigates the distribution of a morphological variable that has not gained much attention in the literature: adverbial -s versus -Ø. This morpheme predominantly occurs with adverbs ending in -ward(s) , like forward(s), afterward(s), and inward(s), or -way(s) , such as anyway(s) or halfway(s) . Using a large database of sociolinguistic interviews of Ontario English and an apparent-time perspective, we show that the use of the variant…
Null se constructions in Brazilian and European Portuguese: Morphosyntactic deletion or emergence of new constructions
Se constructions designate a set of polysemous constructions along a transitivity continuum marked by the clitic se that perform various functions: reflexive/reciprocal, middle, anticausative, passive, and impersonal. A counterpart of these constructions without the clitic – the null se construction – is also attested. Based on an extensive usage-feature and profile-based analysis, and using multivariate statistical methods, we analyze, consideri…
InterestingFellowor Tough OldBird
English has many words to refer to an adult man (e.g., man, guy, dude), and these are undergoing change in the Ontario dialects. This article analyzes the distribution of these and related forms using data collected in Ontario, Canada. In total, 6,788 tokens for 17 communities were extracted and analyzed with a comparative sociolinguistics methodology for social and geographic factors. The results demonstrate a substantive language change in prog…
The most stable it's ever been: The preterit/present perfect alternation in spoken Ontario English
English tense/aspect-marking is an area where variation abounds and where many theories have been formulated. Diachronic studies of the preterit/present perfect alternation indicate that the present perfect (e.g. I have eaten already ) has been losing ground to the preterit (e.g. I ate already ) (e.g. Elsness 1997, but see Hundt & Smith 2009, Werner 2014). However, few studies have examined this alternation in vernacular speech. This article fill…
Women, blood, and dangerous things: Socio-cultural variation in the conceptualization of menstruation
This study examines a collection of expressions for the taboo topic of menstruation in Dutch, German, and Mandarin Chinese. A model for the identification of conceptualization patterns in taboo verbalizations is set up, analyzing each expression according to the X-phemistic mechanisms and, if applicable, the metaphorical source domains or metonymic vehicles at its origin. The various conceptualizations of menstruation are approached from a socio-…
Introduction: What are alternations and how should we study them
The research paradigm of alternation studies is forming an increasingly large share of the empirical foundations of usage-based linguistics. As the paradigm is essentially an amalgamation of research traditions from various subfields of linguistics, including sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics, and construction grammar, it sports various definitions of the concept of “alternation” and various ways of conducting an alternat…
The rise of get: Grammar, semantics and society in the evolution of the passive
According to recent research, the get -passive, e.g. get arrested , rather than the be -passive, was arrested , has been increasing in frequency since 1850 (Hundt 2001). While some researchers argue that the two variants remain differentiated by semantic nuances like adversativity and agent animacy (e.g. Quirk et al. 1985: 167–71), others assume they are interchangeable and vary according to social factors (Weiner & Labov 1983). Recent corpus-bas…
Linguistics (10 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (9 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Grammar (4 works) · History (4 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (4 works)