MIKKELSEN Olaf

Olaf Mikkelsen is a PhD-student in linguistics, specializing in statistical modeling of corpus data within a usage-based framework. The title of his thesis is "Verbal expressions of futurity in French, Spanish, English and Norwegian : a contrastive, multifactorial corpus study". He is supervised by Professor Dylan Glynn.

Recent publications

  • Mikkelsen, O. & Hartmann, S. (forthcoming). Competing future constructions and the complexity principle : A contrastive outlook. In Flach, S. & Hilpert, M. Broadening the spectrum of corpus linguistics : New approaches to variability and change. Studies in Corpus Linguistics. Amsterdam : John Benjamins.
     
  • Mikkelsen, O. Predicting the Future. Combining corpus evidence and elicitation to understand speakers’ choices in constructional alternations. 11th International Conference on Construction Grammar, Antwerp, Belgium, August 2021.
     
  • Mikkelsen, O. & Guelpa, P. 2018. Le Premier traité grammatical islandais dans l’histoire des théories linguistiques. Corpus de textes linguistiques fondamentaux..