Mind-Bending Grammars search menu search content Mind-Bending Grammars This EU-funded project innovatively combines language change research with research on the individual mind. In the past linguistics has often treated change as happening to an abstract object ‘language’. But it is the minds o…

Grammar and Pragmatics search menu search content Mind-Bending Grammars This EU-funded project innovatively combines language change research with research on the individual mind. In the past linguistics has often treated change as happening to an abstract object 'language'. But it is the minds of a…

Mind-Bending Grammars search menu search content Mind-Bending Grammars This EU-funded project innovatively combines language change research with research on the individual mind. In the past linguistics has often treated change as happening to an abstract object ‘language’. But it is the minds o…

Mind-Bending Grammars search menu search content Team - Mind-Bending Grammars Team Peter Petré Odile A. Oscar Strik Enrique Manjavacas Lynn Anthonissen Will Standing Emma-Louise Silva Sara Budts (associated) Cookie prreferences Strictly necessary cookies They are necessary for the proper functionin…

Mind-Bending Grammars search menu search content Output - Mind Bending Grammars Publications 2021 2021a. Standing, William & Peter Petré. Exploiting convention: Lifespan change and generational incrementation in the development of cleft constructions. In Karen V. Beaman & Isabelle Buchstaller (eds.…

Mind-Bending Grammars search menu search content Project - Mind Bending Grammars Project The project Mind-Bending Grammars examines change in mental grammars of 17th century individuals across their lifespan as attested in their writings. The project treats grammar as a self-organizing network of fo…

Mind-Bending Grammars search menu search content Case studies - Mind-Bending Grammars Case studies To examine innovation and clustering in mental grammars, the following eight syntactic structures are studied: Structures such as these are generally acquired in childhood through subconscious learning…

Mind-Bending Grammars search menu search content Related projects - Mind Bending Grammars Related projects The projects on this page are closely related to the Mind-Bending Grammars project (To do or not to do), in using similar data smaller-scale stand-alone projects originally designed to solve a …

Mind-Bending Grammars search menu search content Framework and methodology - Mind-Bending Grammars Framework and methodology The approach is constructionist (Goldberg 1995, 2006, Croft 2001), seeing grammatical items as form-meaning combinations that are interconnected in a complex associative netwo…

Mind-Bending Grammars search menu search content Heimdall Heimdall is an open-source tool, written in Python, that searches a text for sequences written in other languages than the main one. Heimdall's roots in historical linguistics are reflected in the language models it is shipped with: its three…

Mind-Bending Grammars search menu search content Results Results After one year of Mind-Bending Grammars exciting results have already emerged. The case of be going to may serve as an illustration. About 1600 be going to was used literally for going to some place, as in I’m going to Antwerp. A cen…

Mind-Bending Grammars search menu search content Internships Internships The Mind-Bending Grammars project combines biggish data analysis with historical and theoretical linguistics. The project team welcomes interns from: MA in Artificial Intelligence (MAI) MA in Linguistics or related (MAL) Apart …

Mind-Bending Grammars search menu search content Calls Experiment Studium Generale Klik op slechts één van beide linken hieronder, afhankelijk van je geboortejaar: Ben je in een even jaar geboren, lees dan Tekst A Ben je in een oneven jaar geboren, lees dan Tekst B Cookie prreferences Strictly nec…

Mind-Bending Grammars search menu search content Sara Budts Sara Budts I work as a PhD student on the To do or not to do project. The focus of my PhD research is on cognitive and social mechanisms underlying language change across the lifespan. My particular focus lies on the development of periphra…

Mind-Bending Grammars search menu search content Will Standing Will Standing I work as a P hD student on the Mind-Bending Grammars project. The focus of my PhD research is on cognitive and social mechanisms underlying changes in cleft constructions across the lifespan. My previous research interests…

Mind-Bending Grammars search menu search content Lynn Anthonissen Lynn Anthonissen I am a PhD student on Mind-bending grammars, investigating the cognitive and social mechanisms underlying the increasing productivity of English special passives (prepositional, recipient, subject-to-subject raising).…

Mind-Bending Grammars search menu search content EMMA Corpus Early Modern Multiloquent Authors EMMA (Early Modern Multiloquent Authors) is a sample of 50 of the most prolific English writers born in the 17th century, who mostly belonged to the London-based elite. The compilation of EMMA forms part o…

Mind-Bending Grammars search menu search content Peter Petré Peter Petré I am a research professor at the University of Antwerp and the Principal Investigator of the Mind-Bending Grammars project. Between 2014-2015 I was assistent professor of English at the University of Lille 3 (France). As a re…

Mind-Bending Grammars search menu search content Tekst A Man randt vrouw aan nabij discotheek Afgelopen vrijdag kwam een vrouw binnen in een lokale Oostendse discotheek. Volgens ooggetuigen droeg ze enkel een bikini, alsof ze recht van het strand kwam. Ze ging naar de toog, bestelde verschillende co…

Mind-Bending Grammars search menu search content Tekst B Vrouw wordt aangerand nabij discotheek Afgelopen vrijdag kwam een vrouw binnen in een lokale Oostendse discotheek. Volgens ooggetuigen droeg ze enkel een bikini, alsof ze recht van het strand kwam. Ze ging naar de toog, bestelde verschillende …

Mind-Bending Grammars search menu search content Enrique Manjavacas Enrique Manjavacas I started as a researcher at the University of Antwerp in October 2015. Before coming to Antwerp, I graduated in Classical Philology from the Complutense University of Madrid and obtained a Master degree in Lingui…

Mind-Bending Grammars search menu search content Complexity in complementation The project entitled 'Complexity in complementation: understanding long-term change in verb complementation in terms of inter- and intra-individual variation' will start 1 October 2021. Below you'll find the abstract of t…

Mind-Bending Grammars search menu search content Emma-Louise Silva Emma-Louise Silva As a polyglottal bookworm, I thoroughly look forward to exploring the writings of 18th century British writers for the prestigious Mind-Bending Grammars project. Linguistics has always been a great interest of mine …

Mind-Bending Grammars search menu search content Odile A. Oscar Strik Odile A. Oscar Strik I am a postdoctoral researcher, working, inter alia, on the sociolinguistic dimension of the project. I have a background in Scandinavian and Frisian, and Dutch linguistics. My previous research topics include…

Mind-Bending Grammars search menu search content To do or not to do The main goal of the proposed project is to determine the extent to which individual speakers economize their mental grammar by reinterpreting local patterns as belonging to more widely applicable grammatical rules, as manifested in…