Stability and Fluidity in Syntactic Variation World-Wide: The Genitive Alternation Across Varieties of English KU Leuven
This study is part of the project "Exploring probabilistic grammar(s) in varieties of English around the World" and explores the underlying constraints that shape syntactic variation in new varieties of English. More precisely, my research is concerned with the probabilistic constraints that influence the choice between the s-genitive (e.g. my brother's wife) and the of-genitives (e.g. The wife of my brother) and the extent to which these ...