Alexandra Kinne completed her PhD at the University of Bremen, Germany, where she worked as a lecturer in English linguistics and as a research assistant in a project on lexico-grammatical variation in advanced learner varieties.
This study seeks to contribute to a better understanding of how syntactic variation is affected by probabilistic factors in English as a foreign language (EFL, L2), exemplified by the effect of weight on the syntactic variation with English transitive verb-particle constructions and transitive verb-prepositional phrase (PP) constructions.
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A Triangulated Learner-corpus and Experimental Study of Weight Effects
Alexandra Kinne