Daniel Wiechmann

research

in prep. w/ N. Snider, E. Kerz, and T.F. Jaeger
"Empirically examining parsimony and redundancy in usage-based models of linguistic knowledge"

Building on our LSA 2011 organized session, we are currently editing a special issue of "Language & Speech"

SI_representational_parsimony.pdf

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in prep. w/ E.Kerz, M.Roth, S. Vanya, and P. Wardenga.
"Detecting complex templates in academic writing: The case of concessive and reason adverbial clauses (working title)"

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Wiechmann, Daniel & Arne Lohmann (submitted)
"Modeling Domain Minimization: PP ordering revisited"

Our attemt to further develop John Hawkins' performance-based theory of constituent order.

abstract_Wiechmann_Lohmann.pdf

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Wiechmann, Daniel & Elma Kerz (submitted)
"Positioning Concessive Adverbial Clauses in English: Assessing the importance of discourse-pragmatic and processing-based constraints"

We investigate the effects of a number of processing-related and discourse pragmatic variables on the positioning of concessive clause in English.

D&E_abstract.pdf

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Gast, V. & D. Wiechmann. 2011. 'W(h)-Clefts im Deutschen und Englischen. Eine quantitative Untersuchung auf Grundlage des Europarl-Korpus'. In Gunkel, L. & G. Zifonun (eds.): Jahrbuch des IDS 2011. Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton

We are investigating semantic, information-structural and processing-related conditions on the use of cleft constructions.

Gast_Wiechmann_manuscript.pdf

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Wiechmann, Daniel. 2011.
"Exploring probabilistic differences between genetically related languages"
Languages in Contrast, 11(2): 193-215.

I suggest an analytical pipeline for quantitative contrastive analysis and argue for the use of random forests with conditional inference trees and logistic regression models.

LIC_prefinal_draft.pdf

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Wiechmann, Daniel. 2009 (submitted) - 2010 (accepted).
Doctoral Dissertation. University of Jena.

Title: "Understanding Complex Constructions - A Quantitative Corpus Linguistic Approach to the Processing of English Relative Clauses"; and its available upon request

summary_diss.pdf

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Wiechmann, Daniel. 2008c.
"On the Computation of Collostruction Strength".
Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 4-2: 253-290

AMtest.pdf

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Wiechmann, Daniel. 2008b.
"Konstruktionsbasiertes Parsing - Korpusevidenz von lokalen Komplementierungsambiguitaeten"

in Fischer, K. & Stefanowitsch, A. (Hgg.) Konstruktionsgrammatik- Band II
...mein bescheidener Beitrag zur Verbreitung der Konstruktionsgrammatik im deutschsprachigen Raum...

kxg2_draft.pdf

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Wiechmann, Daniel. 2008a.
"Sense-contingent lexical preferences and early parsing decisions".
Cognitive Linguistics, 19-3: 439-455.

CL2008.pdf

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Wiechmann, Daniel. 2006.
ICLA book review of "Bartsch, R. (2002) Consciousness Emerging

Well, it's a good book. I recommend you read it ;)

draft.pdf

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Wiechmann, Daniel and Fuhs, Stefan. 2006.
Concordancing Software. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 2-1: 109-130.

This article provides an overview of what current concordancing software has to offer.

prefinal%20draft.pdf

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