OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
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Word order flexibility affects complementizer omission: a cross-linguistic investigation	14
Present perfect and preterit variation in the Spanish of Lima and Mexico city: findings from a corpus analysis	12
Lexical patterns in Hungarian vowel harmony	12
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Clausal and phrasal coordination in recent American English	11
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Grammaticalisation of habitual aspect in World Englishes: assessing trajectories, areal patterns and rates of change with synchronic corpora	10
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A corpus-based study on semantic and cognitive features of bei sentences in Mandarin Chinese	8
Accounting for the entire system of complexity features: evidence for general oral versus literate grammatical complexity dimensions	8
The theme-recipient alternation in Chinese: tracking syntactic variation across seven centuries	6
Generating semantic maps through multidimensional scaling: linguistic applications and theory	6
An improved test of the constant rate hypothesis: late Modern American English possessive have	4
BERT-assisted behavioral profiling of polysemy: contrastive analysis of HONG in Chinese and RED in English	4
Verb influence on French wh-placement: a parallel corpus study	3
Predicting native speaker choice: the role of corpus-based frequency metrics in morpho-syntactic alternations	3
Truth be told: a corpus-based study of the cross-linguistic colexification of representational and (inter)subjective meanings	3
Detecting interactions with random forests: a comment on Gries’ words of caution and suggestions for improvement	3
CLLT ‘versus’ Corpora and IJCL: a (half serious) keyness analysis	3
When one wrong rights another: speakers passivize to express the subject as the experiencer in psychological verb use	3
Transfer of collostructions: the case of causative constructions	2
In search of lost space	2
Register and the dual nature of functional correspondence: accounting for text-linguistic variation between registers, within registers, and without registers	2
Lexical bloom, syntactic retreat: examining complexity trade-offs within Classical Chinese evolution across two millennia	2

Revisiting N waiting to happen: word, construction, and corpus choices in a collostructional analysis	2
Expressing smells in (American) English	2
Lexical borrowing in Korean: a diachronic approach based on a corpus analysis	2
Linguistic variation within registers: granularity in textual units and situational parameters	2
Reliable detection and quantification of selective forces in language change	2
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Comparing the functional range of English to be to German sein: a test of the boundary permeability hypothesis	1
Critical contingency competition in L2 clause positioning acquisition: the case of concessive clause by Chinese EFL learners	1
Seeing the wood for the trees: predictive margins for random forests	1
A variationist perspective on the comparative complexity of four registers at the intersection of mode and formality	1
Introduction to the special issue on collostructions	1
To drop or not to drop? Predicting the omission of the infinitival marker in a Swedish future construction	1
Corpus linguistics meets historical linguistics and construction grammar: how far have we come, and where do we go from here?	1
The blurring of the boundaries: changes in verb/noun heterosemy in Recent English	1
A multifactorial aspectual analysis of verb concatenation with imperfective markers zhe in Mandarin	1
From sequentiality to schematization: network-based analysis of covarying collexemes in Mandarin degree adverb constructions	1
A theory for words in Georgian: traditional constructs versus corpus annotation	1
Transfer five ways: applications of multiple distinctive collexeme analysis to the dative alternation in Mandarin Chinese	1
Does corpus size influence normalised frequencies?	1
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Register variation explains stylometric authorship analysis	1
Let my speakers talk: metalinguistic activity can indicate semantic change	1
When shields and distances are key: a corpus-based study of Slovene bare pronouns in negated clauses	1
Register variation and corpus linguistics: empirical findings and emerging theories. Special issue introduction of Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory in honor of Douglas Biber	1
Contextualizing the variation in causal clause ordering in Mandarin Chinese: a multifactorial analysis	1
A multivariate analysis of canonical and non-canonical uses of switch-reference markers in Mbyá narratives	0
Parts of speech and the placement of Targets in the corpus of languages in northwestern Iran	0
Corpus linguistics and the social sciences	0
Beyond smell: rethinking the figurative force of olfactory language	0
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Metaphorical language change is Self-Organized Criticality	0
Investigating lexical-semantic effects on morphosyntactic variation using elastic net regression	0
Register variation remains stable across 60 languages	0
The distribution of /w/ and /ʍ/ in Scottish Standard English	0
Idiosyncratic entrenchment: tracing change in constructional schematicity with nested random effects	0
From keywords to key embeddings – contrasting French and Swedish web registers using multilingual deep learning	0
The linguistic organization of grammatical text complexity: comparing the empirical adequacy of theory-based models	0
The distributional properties of long nominal compounds in scientific articles: an investigation based on the uniform information density hypothesis	0
Alternation in the Mandarin disposal constructions: quantifying their evolutionary dynamics across twelve centuries	0
Frontmatter	0
I couldn’t help but wonder: do modals and negation attract?	0
Register in corpus linguistics: the role and legacy of Douglas Biber	0
On the learnability of aspectual usage	0
The English dative alternation in vector space: how much does meaning matter?	0
Semantic and contextual constraints on the causative alternation in English: a multifactorial analysis	0
The red dress is cute: why subjective adjectives are more often predicative	0
Evaluation of keyness metrics: performance and reliability	0
Well, maybe you shouldn’t go around shaving poodles: collostructional semantic and discursive prosody in the go (a)round Ving and go (a)round and V constructions	0
Prosody and co-speech gestures in a Brazilian audiovisual spontaneous speech corpus: the case of Parentheticals	0
The diachronic change of English relativizers: a case study in the State of the Union addresses across two centuries	0

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“Thank you for the terrific party!” – An analysis of Hungarian negative emotive words	0
Towards a dynamic behavioral profile of the Mandarin Chinese temperature termre: a diachronic semasiological approach	0
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A collostructional approach to Japanese noun-modifying clause construction use and acquisition: a learner corpus study	0
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Corpus-based discourse analysis: from meta-reflection to accountability	0
Cognitive and sociolectal constraints on the theme-recipient alternation: evidence from Mandarin	0
A corpus-based quantitative study of numeral classifiers in Nepali	0
Learner corpus research: a critical appraisal and roadmap for contributing (more) to SLA research agendas	0
The counting principle makes number words unique	0
They worked their hardest on the construction’s history: Superlative Objoid Constructions in Late Modern American English	0
Large-scale patterns of number use in spoken and written English	0
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A radically usage-based, collostructional approach to assessing the differences between negative modal contractions and their parent forms	0
A corpus approach to orthographic chunking: near-naive word separation in Swiss German text messages	0
A multivariate corpus analysis of locative inversion in Mandarin Chinese	0
Lexical factors in English definiteness marking: a corpus-based investigation	0
Phraseology in a cross-linguistic perspective: A diachronic and corpus-based account	0
Alternation phenomena and language proficiency: the genitive alternation in the spoken language of EFL learners	0
Inferring case paradigms in Koalib with computational classifiers	0
The wompom	0
Profiling analytic causative construction in Chinese: a multifactorial analysis of diachronic change	0
Refining the network for the Chinese analytic causative constructicon: insights from corpus analysis and psycholinguistic experimentation	0
The genitive alternation in German	0