Alexander Lakaw
Doctoral student
Department of Languages
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
+46470708968
Phd student in English linguistics.
Research within corpus linguistics, language change and diachronic linguistics.
Publications
Article in journal (Refereed)
- Laitinen, M., Lundberg, J., Levin, M., Lakaw, A. (2017). Utilizing Multilingual Language Data in (Nearly) Real Time : The Case of the Nordic Tweet Stream. Journal of universal computer science (Online). 23. 1038-1056.
- Lakaw, A. (2016). Diachronic shifts in agreement patterns of collective nouns in 19th-century American and British English. Studies in Variation, Contacts and Change in English. 18.
Conference paper (Refereed)
- Lakaw, A. (2017). Prescriptive Influences on Agreement with Collective Nouns in Early 20th-century American English. LMEC 6 : Book of Abstracts. 20-21.
- Lakaw, A. (2017). Diachronic shifts in agreement patterns of collective nouns in American and British English in the 19th and early 20th century. ICAME 48m 24-28 May 2017, Charles University, Prague : Corpus et Orbis: Interpreting the World through Corpora. Book of Abstracts. 146-147.
- Lakaw, A. (2016). Diachronic shifts in agreement patterns of collective nouns in 19th-century British and American English. Book of Abstracts : 4th Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English. 18-21 September 2016 Poznań, Poland. 256-258.
- Lakaw, A. (2015). Diachronic shifts in agreement patterns of collective nouns in 19th-century American English. ICAME 36: Words, words, words – corpora and lexis. Trier, 27-31 May 2015.
- Laitinen, M., Levin, M., Lakaw, A. (2015). Advanced non-native English on a continuum of Englishes : Charting new data sources. From data to evidence : big data, rich data, uncharted data : 19-22 October 2015, Helsinki.
Chapter in book (Refereed)
- Laitinen, M., Lundberg, J., Levin, M., Lakaw, A. (2017). Revisiting weak ties : Using present-day social media data in variationist studies. Exploring Future Paths for Historical Sociolinguistics. Amsterdam, John Benjamins Publishing Company. 303-325.