Dr Jason Grafmiller

Department of Linguistics and Communication
Lecturer in corpus-based sociolinguistics

Contact details

Telephone: +44 (0)1214147017
Email: j.grafmiller@bham.ac.uk
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Address: Frankland Building
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Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

I am a lecturer in corpus-based sociolinguistics in the Department of Linguistics and Communication. My research focuses on the quantitative analysis of grammatical variation.

Qualifications

PhD in Linguistics, 2013, Stanford University
BA with distinction in Linguistics, 2006, The Ohio State University

Biography

I joined the Department of English Language and Linguistics in June 2017. Before coming to the University 麻豆精选, I was a postdoctoral fellow in the Quantitative Lexicology and Variational Linguistics (QLVL) research unit in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium.

Teaching

At the undergraduate level in academic year 2017-18, I will be teaching the modules Research Skills in English Language and Sounds, Structures, and Words. At the postgraduate level, I’ll be teaching the Sociolinguistics and English as an International Language modules.

Postgraduate supervision

I am interested in supervising MA and PhD research in linguistic variation of all stripes, particularly work focused on investigating usage-based models of social and/or cognitive factors shaping morphosyntactic variation in English (or other languages).

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Research

My research aims to better understand the nature of syntactic variation in the context of natural language use. Most recently I have been investigating grammatical alternations in World Englishes, e.g. the particle placement alternation (I picked the book up ~ I picked up the book). Other areas of interest include: the interaction of syntactic, semantic and other cognitive factors in stylistic variation across registers and genres; the nature of so-called "end-weight" effects in word order variation; and the role of semantic features (esp. agency and animacy) in argument realization and transitivity alternations.

Other activities

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Publications

Highlight publications

Grafmiller, J 2022, '', Studies in Variation, Contacts and Change in English, vol. 22.

Engel, A, Grafmiller, J, Rosseel, L & Szmrecsanyi, B 2022, '', Cognitive Linguistics.

Engel, A, Grafmiller, J, Rosseel, L, Szmrecsanyi, B & Van de Velde , F 2021, . in E Seoane & D Biber (eds), Corpus-based approaches to register variation. John Benjamins, Amsterdam, pp. 51-84.

Szmrecsanyi, B, Grafmiller, J & Rosseel, L 2019, '', Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 2, 23.

Grafmiller, J & Szmrecsanyi, B 2018, '', Language Variation and Change, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 385-412.

Recent publications

Book

Szmrecsanyi, B & Grafmiller, J 2023, . Studies in Language Variation and Change, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Article

Grieve, J, Bartl, S, Fuoli, M, Grafmiller, J, Huang, W, Napolitano Jawerbaum, A, Murakami, A, Perlman, M, Roemling, D & Winter, B 2025, '', Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 7, 1472411.

Dubois, T, Grafmiller, J, Paquot, M & Szmrecsanyi, B 2023, '', Language and Cognition.

Tamaredo, I, R枚thlisberger, M, Grafmiller, J & Heller, B 2019, '', English Language & Linguistics.

Grafmiller, J, Szmrecsanyi, B, R枚thlisberger, M & Heller, B 2018, '', Glossa, vol. 3, no. 1, 94.

R枚thlisberger, M, Grafmiller, J & Szmrecsanyi, B 2017, '', Cognitive Linguistics.

Szmrecsanyi, B, Grafmiller, J, Bresnan, J, Rosenbach, A, Tagliamonte, S & Todd, S 2017, '', Glossa, vol. 2, no. 1: 86.

Heller, B, Szmrecsanyi, B & Grafmiller, J 2017, '', Journal of English Linguistics, vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 3-27.

Szmrecsanyi, B, Grafmiller, J, Heller, B & R枚thlisberger, M 2016, '', English World-Wide, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 109-137.

Grafmiller, J, Szmrecsanyi, B & Hinrichs, L 2016, '', Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory.

Grafmiller, J 2014, '', English Language & Linguistics, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 471-496.

Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Shih, S, Grafmiller, J, Futrell, R & Bresnan, J 2015, . in R Vogel & R van de Vijver (eds), Rhythm in Phonetics, Grammar, and Cognition. De Gruyter, pp. 207-234.

Preprint

Grieve, J, Bartl, S, Fuoli, M, Grafmiller, J, Huang, W, Jawerbaum, A, Murakami, A, Perlman, M, Roemling, D & Winter, B 2024 '' arXiv.