Leiden University Scholarly Publications

On the probability and direction of morphosyntactic lifespan change

Adjusting scope

Categoriality in the English gerund system

Complexity in complementation

Varying abstractions

Let's get into it

Classifying evolutionary forces in language change using neural networks

Review of Brinton, L. English historical linguistics: approaches and perspectives

What about Grammar? Using BERT Embeddings to Explore Functional-Semantic Shifts of Semi-Lexical and Grammatical Constructions

Individuality in syntactic variation: An investigation of the seventeenthcentury gerund alternation

Cultural entrenchment of folktales is encoded in language

A corpus-based view on the (aspectual-)semantics of Modern English nominalizations

Categoriality in Language Change: The Case of the English Gerund

Assessing theory with practice: an evaluation of two aspectual-semantic classification models of gerundive nominalizations

The changing functions of competing forms: attraction and differentiation

Competing motivations in the diachronic nominalization of English gerunds

The aggregate and the individual: thoughts on what non-alternating authors reveal about linguistic alternations – a response to Petré

Usage-based perspectives on diachronic morphology: a mixed-methods approach towards English ing-nominals