Publications

  • Sönning, Lukas, Jason Grafmiller & Raquel P. Romasanta. 2024. Regression and random forests: Synergies for variationist corpus research. In review [PsyArXiv Preprint: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/afuh9; OSF: https://osf.io/5u8bt/]
  • Sönning, Lukas & Jason Grafmiller. 2024. Seeing the wood for the trees: predictive margins for random forests. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 20(1). 153-181. https://doi.org/10.1515/cllt-2022-0083. [Preprint: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/jr8yk; OSF: https://osf.io/4tuv2/]
  • Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt & Jason Grafmiller. 2023. Comparative variation analysis: grammatical alternations in World Englishes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [OSF: https://osf.io/3gfqn/]
  • Dubois, Tanguy, Jason Grafmiller, Magali Paquot & Benedikt Szmrecsanyi. 2023. Animacy effects in the English genitive alternation: comparing native speakers and EFL learner judgments with corpus data. Language and Cognition. 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2023.51.
  • Grafmiller, Jason 2023. {VADIS}: Variation-Based Distance & Similarity Modeling. R package version 1.0. https://github.com/jasongraf1/VADIS.
  • Grafmiller, Jason. 2022. Visualizing grammatical similarities in comparative variationist analysis. Studies in Variation, Contacts and Change in English. Variation, Contacts and Change in English (VARIENG), 22. https://varieng.helsinki.fi/series/volumes/22new/grafmiller/. [OSF: https://osf.io/2q4vm/]
  • Grafmiller, Jason and Lukas Sönning. 2022. {predictiveMargins}: Predictive margins for random forests. R package version 0.4.2. https://github.com/jasongraf1/predictiveMargins.
  • Engel, Alexandra, Jason Grafmiller, Laura Rosseel & Benedikt Szmrecsanyi. 2022. Assessing the complexity of lectal competence: the register-specificity of the dative alternation after GIVE. Cognitive Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2021-0107.
  • Engel, Alexandra, Jason Grafmiller, Laura Rosseel, Benedikt Szmrecsanyi & Freek Van de Velde. 2021. How register-specific is probabilistic grammatical knowledge? A programmatic sketch and a case study on the dative alternation with give. In Elena Seoane & Douglas Biber (eds.), Corpus-based approaches to register variation, 51–84. Amsterdam; Philadelphia: John Benjamins. [OSF: https://osf.io/bzcvn/] [PDF]
  • Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt, Jason Grafmiller & Laura Rosseel. 2019. Variation-Based Distance and Similarity Modeling: A Case Study in World Englishes. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence 2. https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2019.00023. [OSF: https://osf.io/3gfqn/]
  • Tamaredo, Iván, Melanie Röthlisberger, Jason Grafmiller & Benedikt Heller. 2019. Probabilistic indigenization effects at the lexis–syntax interface. English Language & Linguistics 24(2). 1–28. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674319000133. [OSF: https://osf.io/zv2bc/]
  • Grafmiller, Jason, Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, Melanie Röthlisberger & Benedikt Heller. 2018. General introduction: A comparative perspective on probabilistic variation in grammar. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 3(1). 1–10. https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.690.
  • Paquot, Magali, Jason Grafmiller & Benedikt Szmrecsanyi. 2018. Particle placement alternation in EFL learner vs. L1 speech: core probabilistic grammar and/or L1-specific preferences? In Proceedings of Learner Corpus Research 2017. Bolzano, Italy. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/202928. [PDF]
  • Heller, Benedikt, Benedikt Szmrecsanyi & Jason Grafmiller. 2017. Stability and fluidity in syntactic variation world-wide: The genitive alternation across varieties of English. Journal of English Linguistics 45(1). 3–27. https://doi.org/10.1177/0075424216685405.
  • Röthlisberger, Melanie, Jason Grafmiller & Benedikt Szmrecsanyi. 2017. Cognitive indigenization effects in the English dative alternation. Cognitive Linguistics 28(4). 673–710. https://doi.org/10/gddnmm.
  • Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt, Jason Grafmiller, Joan Bresnan, Anette Rosenbach, Sali Tagliamonte & Simon Todd. 2017. Spoken syntax in a comparative perspective: The dative and genitive alternation in varieties of English. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 2(1). 86. https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.310.
  • Grafmiller, Jason, Benedikt Szmrecsanyi & Lars Hinrichs. 2016. Restricting the restrictive relativizer. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1515/cllt-2016-0015. [OSF: https://osf.io/yr68f/]
  • Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt, Jason Grafmiller, Benedikt Heller & Melanie Röthlisberger. 2016. Around the world in three alternations: Modeling syntactic variation in varieties of English. English World-Wide 37(2). 109–137. https://doi.org/10.1075/eww.37.2.01szm.
  • Shih, Stephanie, Jason Grafmiller, Richard Futrell & Joan Bresnan. 2015. Rhythm’s role in predicting genitive alternation choice in spoken English. In R. Vogel & R. van de Vijver (eds.), Rhythm in Phonetics, Grammar, and Cognition, 207–234. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. [PDF]
  • Grafmiller, Jason. 2014. Variation in English genitives across modality and genres. English Language and Linguistics 18(03). 471–496. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674314000136.
  • Grafmiller, Jason. 2013. The Semantics of Syntactic Choice: An Analysis of English Emotion Verbs. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Ph.D. Thesis. [PDF]
  • Levin, Beth & Jason Grafmiller. 2013. Do You Always Fear What Frightens You? In T. H. King & Valeria de Paiva (eds.), From Quirky Case to Representing Space: Papers in Honor of Annie Zaenen, 21–33. CSLI Publications. [PDF]