Publications (Selection)

Books

• 2000. Emerging English Modals: A Corpus-Based Study of Grammaticalization; Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter. iv, 332pp.
• 2003. (Facchinetti, Roberta, Manfred Krug & Frank Palmer; eds.). Modality in Contemporary English; Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter. xiii, 396pp.
• Forthcoming (with Julia Schlüter; eds.). Research Methods in Language Variation and Change; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Under contract for publication (with Hubert Cuyckens). Grammaticalization and the History of English (Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language); Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Journal articles, handbook chapters, conference proceedings (selection)

• 1998a. Englisch-deutsche Korpusanalysen: Kontrastive und diachrone Aspekte und ihre Relevanz im universitären Fremdsprachenunterricht; in: Wolfgang Börner & Klaus Vogel (eds.) Kontrast und Äquivalenz: Beiträge zu Sprachvergleich und Übersetzung. Tübingen: Narr, 168-193.
• 1998b. British English is Developing a New Discourse Marker, Innit? A Study in Lexicalisation Based on Social, Regional and Stylistic Variation; Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 23:2, 145-197.
• 1998c. String Frequency: A Cognitive Motivating Factor in Coalescence, Language Processing and Linguistic Change; Journal of English Linguistics 26:4, 286-320.
• 2001. Frequency, Iconicity, Categorization; in: Joan Bybee & Paul Hopper (eds.) Frequency and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 309-335.
• 2003. Frequency as a Determinant in Grammatical Variation and Change; in: Günter Rohdenburg & Britta Mondorf (eds.) Determinants of Grammatical Variation in English. Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 7-67.
• 2003. (Great) Vowel Shifts Present and Past: Meeting Ground for Structural and Natural Phonologists; Penn Working Papers 9.2: Selected papers from 11 NWAVE at Stanford, CA, USA, 107-122.
• 2007. Modern Methodologies and Changing Standards in English Linguistics; in: María Losada Friend, Pilar Ron Vaz, Sonia Hernández Santano & Jorge Casanova (eds.) Proceedings of the 30th International AEDEAN Conference. Huelva: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Huelva. [CD-Rom]
• 2009. Modality and the History of English Adhortatives; in: Raphael Salkie, Pierre Busuttil & Johan van der Auwera (eds.), Modality in English. Theory and Description (Topics in English Linguistics). Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 315-347.
• 2010 (with Michaela Hilbert). The compilation of ICE Malta: State of the Art and Challenges Along the Way; ICAME Journal 34: 54-63.
• 2011. Auxiliaries and Grammaticalization. In: Bernd Heine & Heiko Narrog (eds.) Handbook of Grammaticalization. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 547-558.
  
• 2011 (with Lisa Bonnici & Michaela Hilbert). Maltese English. In: Bernd Kortmann & Kerstin Lunkenheimer (eds.) The electronic World Atlas of Varieties of English [eWAVE]. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. http://www.ewave-atlas.org/.
  
• 2012 (with Michaela Hilbert). Progressives in Maltese English: A comparison with spoken and written text types of British and American English. In: Ulrike Gut & Marianne Hundt (eds.) Mapping Unity in Diversity (Varieties of English around the World). Amsterdam: Benjamins, 103-136.
• 2012. Ch. 48: The Great Vowel Shift. In: Alexander Bergs & Laurel Brinton (eds.) Historical Linguistics of English: An International Handbook (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science, HSK). Berlin; New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 756-776.
  
• 2012 (with Anna Rosen). Standards of English in Malta and the Channel Islands. In: Raymond Hickey (ed.) Standards of English: Codified Varieties around the World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 117-138.
• 2012 (with Lisa Bonnici & Michaela Hilbert). Maltese English. In: Kortmann, Bernd & Kerstin Lunkenheimer (eds.) The Mouton World Atlas of Variation in English. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 653-668.
• In press (with Ray Fabri & Michaela Hilbert): Maltese English Morphosyntax: Corpus-Based and Questionnaire-Based Studies; Il-Lingwa Taghna (Special Issue; Alexandra Vella & Ray Fabri, eds.) Towards a Description of Maltese English, 49pp.
• Forthcoming (with Ole Schützler): Recent Change and Grammaticalization. In: Bas Aarts, Geoffrey Leech, Joanne Close & Jeremy Smith (eds.) The Verb Phrase in English: Investigating recent language change with corpora. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Forthcoming (with Katrin Sell). Designing and Conducting Interviews and Questionnaires. In: Manfred Krug & Julia Schlüter (eds.) Research Methods in Language Variation and Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• In preparation. Maltese English. In: Edgar Schneider, Daniel Schreier, Peter Trudgill & Jeffrey P. Williams (eds.) Lesser-known Varieties of English (Vol. 2) (Studies in English Series). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 

Plenary and invitational papers

• Frequency, Iconicity, Categorization: Evidence from Emerging Modals; Paper given at the invitational symposium Frequency Effects and Emergent Grammar. Carnegie Mellon University, July 1999.
• Frequency as a Determinant in Grammatical Variation and Change; Paper given at the invitational symposium Determinants of Grammatical Variation in English. Paderborn, 2001.
• Adhortative let’s: Negation and Grammaticalization; Plenary paper given at Pau, France: 2nd International Conference on Modality in English, Sept. 2004.
• Historical Corpus Linguistics and Beyond; Paper given at the invitational symposium Corpus Linguistics – Perspectives for the Future. Heidelberg, Oct. 2004.
• The Quest for Grammaticalization Parameters; Plenary paper given at Leuven, Belgium: From Ideational to Interpersonal: Perspectives from Grammaticalization (FitiGra), Feb. 2005.
• Modern Methodologies and Changing Standards in English Linguistics; Plenary paper given at the Annual meeting of the Spanish Association for English and American Studies (AEDEAN, Associación Española De Estudio Anglo-Norteamericano), Spain. Dec. 2006.
• Developing a Questionnaire for Investigating English-Romance Contact Varieties of English; Athens, GA, Oct. 2008
• Recent Change and Grammaticalization in Constructions Marking Intention; Symposium on Current Change celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Survey of English Usage. London, July 2009.
• Research Methodologies and Questionnaire Design: Investigating Language Variation and Change; Lecture series Cambridge, Feb. 2010:
• Maltese English: Grammar and Lexicon; Zurich, May 2010.
• Sprachkontakt in Malta: Amerikanisierung – Globalisierung – Glokalisierung?; Erlangen, June 2010
• Synchrony and diachrony: The role of corpora in the investigation of modality in English. Plenary paper at the Conference Modality, Corpus, Discourse; Lund (Sweden), June 2012.