Publications

2021

• Bernaisch, Tobias, Benedikt Heller & Joybrato Mukherjee. Manual for the 2020-Update of the South Asian Varieties of English (SAVE2020) Corpus. Version 1.0. Giessen: Justus Liebig University, Department of English.
• Gries, Stefan Th., Benedikt Heller & Nina Funke. The Role of Gender in Postcolonial Syntactic Choice-Making: Evidence From The Genitive Alternation In British and Sri Lankan English. In: Bernaisch, Tobias J. (Ed.). Gender in World Englishes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2020

• Van de Velde, Freek & Benedikt Heller. The data do not support the existence of an ‘Old Boy network’ in science. Some critical comments on a study by Massen et al. Scientific Reports 10(13784).

2019

• Heller, Benedikt & Benedikt Szmrecsanyi. Possessives World-Wide: Genitive Variation in Varieties of English. In: Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria, Emma Moore, Linda van Bergen, and Wellem B. Hollmann (Eds.). Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Tamaredo, Ivan, Melanie Röthlisberger, Jason Grafmiller & Benedikt Heller. Probabilistic indigenization effects at the lexis-syntax interface. English Language and Linguistics 24(2). 413–440.

2018

• Gries, Stefan Th., Tobias Bernaisch & Benedikt Heller. A corpus-linguistic account of the history of the genitive alternation in Singapore English. In: Deshors, Sandra C. (Ed.). Modeling World Englishes: Assessing the interplay of emancipation and globalization of ESL varieties. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
• Grafmiller, Jason, Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, Melanie Röthlisberger & Benedikt Heller. General introduction: A comparative perspective on probabilistic variation in grammar. Glossa 3(1).
• Heller, Benedikt: Stability and Fluidity in Syntactic Variation World-Wide. The Genitive Alternation Across Varieties of English. KU Leuven: Ph.D. dissertation.

2017

• Grafmiller, Jason, Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, Melanie Röthlisberger & Benedikt Heller (eds.): Probabilistic grammars: Syntactic variation in a comparative perspective. Special Collection in Glossa.
• Heller, Benedikt, Tobias Bernaisch & Stefan Th. Gries: Empirical Perspectives on Two Potential Epicenters: The Genitive Alternation in Asian Englishes. ICAME Journal 41 (1). 33–66.
• Heller, Benedikt, Benedikt Szmrecsanyi & Jason Grafmiller: Stability and Fluidity in Syntactic Variation World-Wide: The Genitive Alternation Across Varieties of English. Journal of English Linguistics 45(1). 3–27.

2016

• Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt, Jason Grafmiller, Benedikt Heller & Melanie Röthlisberger: Around the World in Three Alternations: Modeling Syntactic Variation in Varieties of English. English World-Wide 37 (2). 109–137.

Presentations

2019

• Benedikt Heller & Jens Wagner. Next Generation Supply Chain Planning. Enhancing Demand Forecasting Through Analytics and AI. ICN Big Data Conference. Frankfurt, 28 November 2019.
• Gries, Stefan Th., Benedikt Heller & Nina S. Funke. The role of gender in postcolonial syntactic choice-making: evidence from the genitive alternation in British and Sri Lankan English. Corpus Linguistics 2019, Cardiff, 24 July 2019.

2018

• Tamaredo, Iván, Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, Jason Grafmiller, Benedikt Heller & Melanie Röthlisberger. Measuring the variational homogeneity of English as a world language: Probabilistic indigenization effects in four syntactic alternations. ICAME 39, Tampere, 1 June 2018.
• Heller, Benedikt. Performing multifactorial linguistic analyses with R. Workshop given at the University of Colombo (Sri Lanka), 28 March 2018.
• Heller, Benedikt. Working with Corpora: ICE-SL Project Progress and Introduction to Corpus-Linguistic Analysis. Presentation and workshop given at the University of Colombo (Sri Lanka), 26 March 2018.
• Heller, Benedikt. Stability and Fluidity in Syntactic Variation World-Wide: The Genitive Alternation In Varieties of English. Invited talk given at the University of Trier, 24 January 2018.

2017

• Heller, Benedikt. The Genitive Alternation in Varieties of English. Doctoral maxi presentation given at KU Leuven, 29 September 2017.
• Gries, Stefan Th., Tobias Bernaisch & Benedikt Heller. A corpus-linguistic account of the history of the genitive alternation in Singapore English: evidence for the transition from nativisation to endonormativity? Invited talk given at the University of Trier, 25 October 2017.
• Hansen, Beke & Benedikt Heller. Expansion of the s-genitive in World Englishes. 7th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English, Vigo, 28–30 September 2017.
• Heller, Benedikt, Tobias Bernaisch & Stefan Th. Gries. A corpus-linguistic account of the history of the genitive alternation in Singapore English: evidence for the transition from nativisation to endonormativity? ICAME 38, Prague, 24–28 May 2017.

2016

• Bernaisch, Tobias, Stefan Th. Gries & Benedikt Heller. Epicentres in South and South-East Asian Englishes: Empirical Perspectives. Presented at VEIP 2, Freiburg, 6–7 June 2016.
• Heller, Benedikt, Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, Jason Grafmiller & Melanie Röthlisberger. Syntactic Variation and Probabilistic Indigenization in World Englishes. Presented at ICAME 37, Hong Kong, 25–29 May 2016.
• Gries, Stefan Th., Benedikt Heller & Tobias Bernaisch. Epicentres in South and South-East Asian Englishes: Empirical Perspectives. Presented at ICAME 37, Hong Kong, 25–29 May 2016.
• Grafmiller, Jason, Benedikt Heller, Melanie Röthlisberger & Benedikt Szmrecsanyi. Syntactic variation and probabilistic indigenization in World Englishes. New Ways of Analzying Syntactic Variation, Ghent, 19–20 May 2016.
• Röthlisberger, Melanie, Jason Grafmiller, Benedikt Heller & Benedikt Szmrecsanyi. Syntactic variation, probabilistic indigenization, and World Englishes. Presented at BKL Taaldag, Louvain-la-Neuve, 13 May 2016.
• Heller, Benedikt. Stability and Fluidity: Genitive Variation Across Varieties of English. Presented at Probabilistic variation across dialects and varieties, Leuven, 4–5 April 2016.
• Grafmiller, Jason, Melanie Röthlisberger, Benedikt Heller & Benedikt Szmrecsanyi. Syntactic variation as a measure of probabilistic indigenization in global varieties of English. The Annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Washington D.C, 7–10 January 2016.

2015

• Heller, Benedikt & Melanie Röthlisberger. Big data on trial: Researching syntactic alternations in GloWbE and ICE. Presented at From Data to Evidence (d2e), Helsinki, 19–22 October 2015.
• Röthlisberger, Melanie, Jason Grafmiller, Benedikt Heller & Benedikt Szmrecsanyi. What choice(s) do we have? Processing and contextual constraints on syntactic variation across the globe. Presented at IAWE 21, Istanbul, 8–10 October 2015.
• Heller, Benedikt. Cross-Varietal Patterns in the English Genitive Alternation: A Pilot Study. Presented at ICAME 36, Trier, 27–31 May 2015.
• Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt, Jason Grafmiller, Benedikt Heller & Melanie Röthlisberger. Probabilistic variation in a comparative perspective: the grammar of varieties of English. Presented at ICLAVE 8, Leipzig, 27–29 May 2015.

2014

• Heller, Benedikt. Genitive Variation in English: Development, Factors, and Operationalization. Guest lecture at the University of Marburg (Germany), 27 November 2014.
• Heller, Benedikt. The Genitive Alternation in Varieties of English. Presented at PhD Day, Leuven (Belgium), 19 September 2014.
• Grafmiller, Jason, Benedikt Heller, Melanie Röthlisberger & Benedikt Szmrecsanyi. Exploring probabilistic grammar(s) in varieties of English around the world. Poster presented at ISLE 3, Zurich, 24–27 August 2014.
• Grafmiller, Jason, Benedikt Heller, Melanie Röthlisberger & Benedikt Szmrecsanyi. Exploring probabilistic grammar(s) in varieties of English around the world (WiP). Presented at ICAME 35, Nottingham, 30 April–4 May 2014.
• Biewer, Carolin, Tobias Bernaisch, Mike Berger & Benedikt Heller. Compiling The Diachronic Corpus of Hong Kong English: Motivation, Progress and Challenges. Poster presented at ICAME 35, Nottingham, 30 April–4 May 2014.
• Heller, Benedikt. Automatic N-Gram Analysis (ANGA) on the Basis of Biber et al.’s (1999) Lexical Bundle Categories (WiP). Presented at ICAME 35, Nottingham, 30 April–4 May 2014.

2011

• Saage, Sven, Viktoria Künstler & Benedikt Heller. Englisch als lingua franca: Zur Nutzung von Mehrworteinheiten in Foren, Blogs, Homepages und Wikis. Presented at LOEWE-Doktorand/innen-Ringvorlesung, Giessen, 11 May 2011.