Books / edited volumes
2007
(edited, with Martina Penke). What Counts as Evidence in Linguistics? (Benjamins Current Topics 7). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.(re-issue of Penke/Rosenbach 2004 in series Benjamins Current Topics)
2004
(edited, with Martina Penke). What counts as evidence in linguistics? The case of innateness, special issue of Studies in Language 28(3). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
2002
Genitive Variation in English. Conceptual factors in synchronic and diachronic studies (Topics in English Linguistics, 42). Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
2000
(edited, with Olga Fischer and Dieter Stein). Pathways of Change. Grammaticalization in English (Studies in Language Companion Series, 53). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
(edited, with Martina Penke). What Counts as Evidence in Linguistics? (Benjamins Current Topics 7). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.(re-issue of Penke/Rosenbach 2004 in series Benjamins Current Topics)
2004
(edited, with Martina Penke). What counts as evidence in linguistics? The case of innateness, special issue of Studies in Language 28(3). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
2002
Genitive Variation in English. Conceptual factors in synchronic and diachronic studies (Topics in English Linguistics, 42). Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
2000
(edited, with Olga Fischer and Dieter Stein). Pathways of Change. Grammaticalization in English (Studies in Language Companion Series, 53). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Articles
Forthcoming
"Dative and genitive variability in the history of English". In Joan Beal (ed.). The New Cambridge History of the English Language. Volume III: Change, transmission and ideology. Cambridge: CUP.
Forthcoming
(with Johanita Kirsten). "Afrikaans influence on genitive variation in South African English? - A comparative diachronic study of Afrikaans and White South African English." In Haidee Kotze and Bertus van Rooy (eds.). Constraints on Language Variation and Change in Complex Multilingual Contact Settings. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
2019
"On the (non-)equivalence of constructions wtih determiner genitives and noun modifiers in English". English Language and Linguistics 23(4): 759 - 796.
doi: 10.1017/S1360674319000273
2017
"Constraints in contact: Animacy in English and Afrikaans genitive variation – a cross-linguistic perspective". Glossa: a journal of general linguistics. 2(1), p.72. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.292.
(with Benediktk Szmrecsanyi, Jason Grafmiller, Joan Bresnan, Sali Tagliamonte & Simon Todd. "Spoken syntax in a comparative perspective: The dative and genitive alternation in varieties of English". Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 2(1), 86. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.310
2014
(with Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, Joan Bresnan and Christoph Wolk). "Culturally conditioned language change? A multi-variate analysis of genitive constructions in ARCHER." In: Marianne Hundt (ed.). Late Modern English Syntax, 133 - 152. Cambridge: CUP.
"English genitive variation - the state of the art". English Language and Linguistics 18(2): 215 - 262.
2013
(with Christoph Wolk, Joan Bresnan and Benedikt Szmrecsanyi). "Dative and genitive variability in Late Modern English: exploring cross-constructional variation and change". Diachronica 30 (3): 382-419.
"Combining elicitation data with corpus data". In: Manfred Krug & Julia Schlüter (eds). Research Methods in Language Variation and Change, 278-294. Cambridge: CUP.
(with Manfred Krug & Julia Schlüter). "Introduction: Investigating language variation and change". In: Manfred Krug & Julia Schlüter (eds). Research Methods in Language Variation and Change, 1-14. Cambridge: CUP.
2010
"How synchronic gradience gives rise to language change (and vice versa)" In: E.C. Traugott & G. Trousdale (eds). Gradience, Gradualness and Grammaticalization. 149-179. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
2009
“Identifying noun modifiers in English”. Manuscript. University of Paderborn.
2008
(with Gerhard Jäger). "Priming and unidirectional language change". Theoretical Linguistics 34(2): 85-113.
(with Gerhard Jäger). "Priming as a testing ground for historical linguists? A reply to Change, Eckardt and Traugott" Theoretical Linguistics 34(2): 143-156.
“Language change as cultural evolution – evolutionary approaches to language change.” In: Regine Eckardt, Gerhard Jäger & Tonjes Veenstra (eds.): Language Evolution: Cognitive and Cultural Factors - Proceedings of Blankensee Colloquium 2005 (Trends in Linguistics), 23-72. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
“Animacy and grammatical variation – findings from English genitive variation”. Lingua 118: 151-171
2007
“Emerging variation: determiner genitives and noun modifiers in English.” English Language and Linguistics 11(1): 143-189.
“Exploring constructions on the web: a case study”. In: Marianne Hundt, Nadja Nesselhauf & Carolin Biewer (Hgg.). Corpus Linguistics and the Web, 167-190. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
“On the track of noun+noun constructions in Modern English”. In: Christoph Houswitschka, Gabriele Knappe & Anja Müller (Hgg.). Anglistentag 2005 Bamberg: Proceedings of the Conference of the German Association of University Teachers of English, Band XXVII, 543-557. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
2006
(with Gerhard Jäger). “The winner takes it all – almost. Cumulativity in grammatical variation”. Linguistics 44(5): 937-971.
“Descriptive genitives in English: a case study on constructional gradience”. English Language and Linguistics 10(1): 77-118.
(with Alexander Bergs & Dieter Stein). “Neue Formen der netzgestützten kooperativen Informationsversorgung: zwei Beispiele für digital peer publishing“. Ausgewählte Beiträge zum 94. Deutschen Bibliothekartag, 257-265. Düsseldorf, Frankfurt/M.: Klostermann.
2005
“Animacy versus weight as determinants of grammatical variation in English”. Language 81(3): 613-644.
(with Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm). "On the fuzziness of nominal determination". Manuscript. University of Stockholm & University of Düsseldorf.
2004
(with Martina Penke). “What counts as evidence in linguistics? – An introduction”. In What counts as evidence in linguistics? – The case of innateness. Special issue of Studies in Language 28(3): 480-526.
“The English s-genitive – a case of degrammaticalization?” In: Olga Fischer, Muriel Norde & Harry Perridon (eds.). Up and down the cline – the nature of grammaticalization, 73-96. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
“Aspect of iconicity and economy in the choice between the s-genitive and the of-genitive in English”. In: Günter Rohdenburg and Britta Mondorf (eds.). Determinants of Grammatical Variation in English (Topics in English Lingustics, 43), 379-411. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
2001
“The English s-genitive: animacy, topicality, and possessive relationship in a diachronic perspective”. In Laurel Brinton (ed.). Historical Linguistics 1999, 277-292. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
2000
(with Olga Fischer): “Introduction”. In O. Fischer, A. Rosenbach & D. Stein (eds.). Pathways of Change. Grammaticalization in English, 1-37. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
(with Dieter Stein and Letizia Vezzosi): “On the history of the s-genitive”. In Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero, David Denison, Richard M. Hogg and C.B. McCully (eds.). Generative Theory and Corpus Studies. A Dialogue from 10ICEHL (Topics in English Linguistics, 31), 183-210. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
(with Letizia Vezzosi): “Genitive constructions in Early Modern English: new evidence from a corpus analysis”. In R. Sornicola, E. Poppe & A Shisha-Halevy (eds.): Stability, Variation and Change of Word-Order Patterns over Time, 285-307. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins
1999
(with Letizia Vezzosi): “Was the s-genitive a traveller through England?” LANA - Düsseldorf Working Papers in Linguistics (hrsg. von Alexander Bergs and Dieter Stein), vol. 1
(http://ang3-11.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/~ang3/LANA/RosVez.pdf)
"Dative and genitive variability in the history of English". In Joan Beal (ed.). The New Cambridge History of the English Language. Volume III: Change, transmission and ideology. Cambridge: CUP.
Forthcoming
(with Johanita Kirsten). "Afrikaans influence on genitive variation in South African English? - A comparative diachronic study of Afrikaans and White South African English." In Haidee Kotze and Bertus van Rooy (eds.). Constraints on Language Variation and Change in Complex Multilingual Contact Settings. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
2019
"On the (non-)equivalence of constructions wtih determiner genitives and noun modifiers in English". English Language and Linguistics 23(4): 759 - 796.
doi: 10.1017/S1360674319000273
2017
"Constraints in contact: Animacy in English and Afrikaans genitive variation – a cross-linguistic perspective". Glossa: a journal of general linguistics. 2(1), p.72. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.292.
(with Benediktk Szmrecsanyi, Jason Grafmiller, Joan Bresnan, Sali Tagliamonte & Simon Todd. "Spoken syntax in a comparative perspective: The dative and genitive alternation in varieties of English". Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 2(1), 86. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.310
2014
(with Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, Joan Bresnan and Christoph Wolk). "Culturally conditioned language change? A multi-variate analysis of genitive constructions in ARCHER." In: Marianne Hundt (ed.). Late Modern English Syntax, 133 - 152. Cambridge: CUP.
"English genitive variation - the state of the art". English Language and Linguistics 18(2): 215 - 262.
2013
(with Christoph Wolk, Joan Bresnan and Benedikt Szmrecsanyi). "Dative and genitive variability in Late Modern English: exploring cross-constructional variation and change". Diachronica 30 (3): 382-419.
"Combining elicitation data with corpus data". In: Manfred Krug & Julia Schlüter (eds). Research Methods in Language Variation and Change, 278-294. Cambridge: CUP.
(with Manfred Krug & Julia Schlüter). "Introduction: Investigating language variation and change". In: Manfred Krug & Julia Schlüter (eds). Research Methods in Language Variation and Change, 1-14. Cambridge: CUP.
2010
"How synchronic gradience gives rise to language change (and vice versa)" In: E.C. Traugott & G. Trousdale (eds). Gradience, Gradualness and Grammaticalization. 149-179. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
2009
“Identifying noun modifiers in English”. Manuscript. University of Paderborn.
2008
(with Gerhard Jäger). "Priming and unidirectional language change". Theoretical Linguistics 34(2): 85-113.
(with Gerhard Jäger). "Priming as a testing ground for historical linguists? A reply to Change, Eckardt and Traugott" Theoretical Linguistics 34(2): 143-156.
“Language change as cultural evolution – evolutionary approaches to language change.” In: Regine Eckardt, Gerhard Jäger & Tonjes Veenstra (eds.): Language Evolution: Cognitive and Cultural Factors - Proceedings of Blankensee Colloquium 2005 (Trends in Linguistics), 23-72. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
“Animacy and grammatical variation – findings from English genitive variation”. Lingua 118: 151-171
2007
“Emerging variation: determiner genitives and noun modifiers in English.” English Language and Linguistics 11(1): 143-189.
“Exploring constructions on the web: a case study”. In: Marianne Hundt, Nadja Nesselhauf & Carolin Biewer (Hgg.). Corpus Linguistics and the Web, 167-190. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
“On the track of noun+noun constructions in Modern English”. In: Christoph Houswitschka, Gabriele Knappe & Anja Müller (Hgg.). Anglistentag 2005 Bamberg: Proceedings of the Conference of the German Association of University Teachers of English, Band XXVII, 543-557. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
2006
(with Gerhard Jäger). “The winner takes it all – almost. Cumulativity in grammatical variation”. Linguistics 44(5): 937-971.
“Descriptive genitives in English: a case study on constructional gradience”. English Language and Linguistics 10(1): 77-118.
(with Alexander Bergs & Dieter Stein). “Neue Formen der netzgestützten kooperativen Informationsversorgung: zwei Beispiele für digital peer publishing“. Ausgewählte Beiträge zum 94. Deutschen Bibliothekartag, 257-265. Düsseldorf, Frankfurt/M.: Klostermann.
2005
“Animacy versus weight as determinants of grammatical variation in English”. Language 81(3): 613-644.
(with Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm). "On the fuzziness of nominal determination". Manuscript. University of Stockholm & University of Düsseldorf.
2004
(with Martina Penke). “What counts as evidence in linguistics? – An introduction”. In What counts as evidence in linguistics? – The case of innateness. Special issue of Studies in Language 28(3): 480-526.
“The English s-genitive – a case of degrammaticalization?” In: Olga Fischer, Muriel Norde & Harry Perridon (eds.). Up and down the cline – the nature of grammaticalization, 73-96. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
“Aspect of iconicity and economy in the choice between the s-genitive and the of-genitive in English”. In: Günter Rohdenburg and Britta Mondorf (eds.). Determinants of Grammatical Variation in English (Topics in English Lingustics, 43), 379-411. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
2001
“The English s-genitive: animacy, topicality, and possessive relationship in a diachronic perspective”. In Laurel Brinton (ed.). Historical Linguistics 1999, 277-292. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
2000
(with Olga Fischer): “Introduction”. In O. Fischer, A. Rosenbach & D. Stein (eds.). Pathways of Change. Grammaticalization in English, 1-37. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
(with Dieter Stein and Letizia Vezzosi): “On the history of the s-genitive”. In Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero, David Denison, Richard M. Hogg and C.B. McCully (eds.). Generative Theory and Corpus Studies. A Dialogue from 10ICEHL (Topics in English Linguistics, 31), 183-210. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
(with Letizia Vezzosi): “Genitive constructions in Early Modern English: new evidence from a corpus analysis”. In R. Sornicola, E. Poppe & A Shisha-Halevy (eds.): Stability, Variation and Change of Word-Order Patterns over Time, 285-307. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins
1999
(with Letizia Vezzosi): “Was the s-genitive a traveller through England?” LANA - Düsseldorf Working Papers in Linguistics (hrsg. von Alexander Bergs and Dieter Stein), vol. 1
(http://ang3-11.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/~ang3/LANA/RosVez.pdf)
Book Notice
for: Merkmale und Relationen. Diachrone Studien zur Nominalphrase des Deutschen (by Ulrike Demske), 2001). Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. Book Notice in Language 78 (2): 365-366
Data
Joan Bresnan, Anette Rosenbach, Benedikt Szmrecsányi, Sali A. Tagliamonte, and Simon Todd. 2017. "Syntactic alternations data: datives and genitives in four varieties of English." Downloadable datasets and documentation for the genitive and dative alternations in four spoken varieties of English (American, British, Canadian, and New Zealand), available from the Stanford Digital Repository
Data
Joan Bresnan, Anette Rosenbach, Benedikt Szmrecsányi, Sali A. Tagliamonte, and Simon Todd. 2017. "Syntactic alternations data: datives and genitives in four varieties of English." Downloadable datasets and documentation for the genitive and dative alternations in four spoken varieties of English (American, British, Canadian, and New Zealand), available from the Stanford Digital Repository