Dear Evie,
Susan Pintzuk and Ann Taylor have recently been doing a lot of multivariate work on the OV/VO alternation in Old English. Some of their results can be found in York Papers in Linguistics here: <http://www.york.ac.uk/language/ypl/ypl2issue12a/YPL12a_02_Taylor.pdf>. I've replicated some of their findings for Old Saxon in a paper that's currently under review - email me if you're interested.
James W. R. Brookes at the University of Manchester is working on the AuxV/VAux alternation in Latin, using random forests. He hasn't published anything of it yet, but has some interesting results.
Chris Sapp has done some variationist work on verb cluster orderings in the history of German, which you may know about. <http://home.olemiss.edu/~csapp/research.html>
Not strictly word order, but Benedikt Szmrecsanyi's work on the genitive alternation in English may well be relevant, for instance <http://www.benszm.net/omnibuslit/Szmrecsanyi_MCR_uncorrected_proofs.pdf>.
Hope this helps!
- George
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On 6 Mar 2013, at 15:50, Josef Fruehwald wrote:
> I'd recommend checking out the work of Tony Kroch and his students starting withReflexes of Grammar in Patterns of Language Change (ftp://babel.ling.upenn.edu/papers/faculty/tony_kroch/papers/reflexes.pdf)andMorphosyntactic Variation(ftp://babel.ling.upenn.edu/facpapers/tony_kroch/papers/morphosyntax.pdf).
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> -Joe
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> On Wednesday, March 6, 2013, Evie Coussé wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
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> I am looking for references on (multivariate) corpus studies of word order alternations. I know of previous corpus research on:
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> · heavy NP shift in English (by Wasow)
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> · particle placement with phrasal verbs in English (Gries, Cappelle)
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> · relative ordering of prenominal adjectives in English (Wulff)
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> · free placement of auxiliary and past participle in verb clusters in Dutch (De Sutter)
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> · relative placement of pronominal direct and indirect objects in German (Heylen)
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> · extraposition of PPs in Dutch and German (Jansen, De Sutter & Van de Velde)
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> I am particularly interested in references to (a) other types of word order alternations, (b) other languages than English, German and Dutch, (c) other types of data than standard language (e.g. dialects and historical data).
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> Thank you for your response!
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> Kind regards,
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> Evie Coussé
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> University of Gothenburg
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