Perspectives on Contemporary English: Structure, Variation, Cognition

Manfred Krug, Ole Schützler, Valentin Werner & Fabian Vetter : Introduction: Perspectives on structure, variation and cognition in contemporary English — Hanna Mahler : Emerging modals revisited: Comparing English semi-modals and their contractions in the spoken BNC1994 and BNC2014 corpora — Roman Zingel : "Man talk slang": The use of pronominal man in grime lyrics — Nikolai Beland : The superlative alternation in British and American English: Questionnaire-based insights — Javier Pérez-Guerra : Multiple comparatives in English: Modelling variation in the inner circle — Yolanda Fernández-Pena : Modelling verb number agreement variation with complex collective subjects in inner-circle varieties of English — Axel Bohmann : ICE corpora, register, and omitted variable bias: A multidimensional perspective — Göran Wolf : Creative and intellectual mobility: English in the GDR — Gerold Schneider : Correlations and predictions of reading times using language models and surprisal .