The present book is the revised version of my PhD thesis that I submitted and defended in
2006 at Philipps-University Marburg. First and foremost, I wish to express my deep gratitude …

The present study investigates the priming and subsequent production of word order
variation (adverb–verb–subject vs. subject–verb–adverb order) with temporal phrases …

We study the learnability problem concerning the dative alternations in English (Baker,
1979; Pinker, 1989). We consider how first language learners productively apply the double …

This paper exemplifies an approach to learner corpus data that adopts a multifactorial
definition of 'context'. We apply a logistic regression to 2,986 attestations of genitive …

This study investigates the role of probabilistic grammatical constraints on the dative
alternation in English as a second language (ESL). It presents the results of an experiment …

Many ditransitive events can be expressed in German using either the indirect object
construction (IOC) or the prepositional object construction (POC). While most previous …

This paper examines novice writers' strategies in the (non-) representation of authorship in
academic writing drawing on data from the Corpus of Academic Learner English and a …

The present study investigates the developmental trajectory of abstract representations for
syntactic structures in children. In a structural priming experiment on the dative alternation in …

This study investigates whether cross-linguistic differences affect how adult second
language (L2) learners use different types of verb subcategorization information for …

This dissertation investigates whether first language (L1) and second language (L2)
learners adhere to the Given-before-New Principle, such that they tend to prefer a discourse …