Publications and Presentations

MONOGRAPHS, COLLECTIONS & SPECIAL ISSUES

Sommerer, Lotte. (forthc.). English Noun Phrases: A Constructional Network Approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Sommerer, Lotte & Stefan Hartmann (eds.). (2023). 35 Years of Constructions, Special Issue of Constructions 15 (1) https://doi.org/10.24338/cons-.0

Sommerer, Lotte & Evelien Keizer (eds.). (2022). English Noun Phrases from a Functional-Cognitive Perspective: Current Issues. [Studies in Language Companion Series]. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.221

Sommerer Lotte & Elena Smirnova (eds.). (2020). Nodes and Networks in Diachronic Construction Grammar. [CAL, Vol. 27]. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/cal.27

Sommerer, Lotte. (2018). Article Emergence in Old English. A Constructionalist Perspective. [TIEL series, Vol. 99]. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110541052

Barðdal, Jóhanna; Smirnova, Elena, Sommerer, Lotte & Gildea, Spike (eds.). (2015). Diachronic Construction Grammar. [CAL, Vol. 18]. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/cal.18

JOURNAL & COLLECTION ARTICLES

Baumann, Andreas, Bohmann, Axel & Sommerer, Lotte. (in prep). Bipartite collexeme graphs and how they can be used to investigate constructional competition.

Blumenthal-Dramé, Alice & Sommerer, Lotte. (in prep). Testing ‘constructionhood’ and the cognitive realism of mid-level abstractions in English possessive constructions. Cognitive Linguistics.

Sommerer, Lotte. (submitted). Grammaticalization.  International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 3rd Edition. Elsevier

Bohmann, Axel & Sommerer, Lotte. (submitted). “Not that tight a family” – BIG MESS constructions in Present Day American English. Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik.

Bohmann, Axel & Sommerer, Lotte. (forthc.). Quantitative methods and the history of English. In Hickey, R. (ed.). New Cambridge History of the English Language, Vol II. Kytö, M. & Smitterberg, E. (eds.). Documentation, sources of data and modelling. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Sommerer, Lotte & Perek, Florent (in press, 2025). Some as an indefinite article in Present Day English: a case of paradigmatization and constructional competition to appear in Special Issue of Functions of Language

Perek, Florent & Sommerer, Lotte. (2025). Lexical factors in English definiteness marking. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory. https://doi.org/10.1515/cllt-2024-0032

Sommerer, Lotte & Zehentner, Eva. (2025). Go to church or die in prison: PPs with bare institutional nouns in the history of English. Folia Linguistica Historica. https://doi.org/10.1515/flin-2024-2057

Sommerer, Lotte & Van de Velde, Freek. (2025). Constructional networks. In Fried, M. & Nikiforidou, K. (eds.). The Cambridge Handbook of Construction Grammar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 220-246, https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009049139.010.

Sommerer, Lotte & Stefan Hartmann. (2023). Reflecting on 35 Years of Constructions, Introduction to Special Issue of Constructions 15 (1).

Sommerer, Lotte. (2023). If that’s what she said, then that’s what she said: an analysis of pleonastic conditionals in English’ Corpus Pragmatics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41701-023-00148-9

Sommerer, Lotte. (2022). So great a desire: investigating the BIG MESS construction in Early Modern English. Journal of Historical Syntax, 6(2), 1-34. https://doi.org/10.18148/hs/2022.v6i2.129

Sommerer, Lotte (2022). Review of Yolanda Fernández-Pena. (2020). Reconciling Synchrony, Diachrony and Usage in Verb Number Agreement with Complex Collective Subjects. London: Routledge. In Research in Corpus Linguistics, 10(2), 175-186.

Sommerer, Lotte. (2022). Day to day and night after night: temporal NPN constructions in Present Day English. In Sommerer, L. & Keizer, E. (eds.). English Noun Phrases from a Functional-Cognitive Perspective: Current Issues. [Studies in Language Companion Series]. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 364-394. https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.221.10som

Keizer, Evelien & Sommerer, Lotte. (2022). Major trends in research on the English NP. In Sommerer, L. & Keizer, E. (eds.). English Noun Phrases from a Functional-Cognitive Perspective: Current Issues. [Studies in Language Companion Series]. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.221.int

Sommerer, Lotte & Baumann, Andreas. (2021). Of absent mothers, strong sisters and peculiar daughters: the constructional network of English NPN constructions. Cognitive Linguistics, 32(1), 97-131. https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2020-0013

Sommerer, Lotte & Hofmann, Klaus. (2021). Constructional competition and network reconfiguration: investigating sum(e) in Old, Middle and Early Modern English. English Language and Linguistics, 25(1), 1-33. https://doi.org/10.1017/S136067431900039X

Smirnova, Elena & Sommerer, Lotte. (2020). The nature of the node and the network: open questions in Diachronic Construction Grammar. In Sommerer, L. & Smirnova, E. (eds.). Nodes and Networks in Diachronic Construction Grammar. [CAL, Vol. 27]. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1-42. https://doi.org/10.1075/cal.27.int

Sommerer, Lotte. (2020). Constructionalization, constructional competition and constructional death: investigating the demise of Old English POSS DEM constructions. In Sommerer, L. & Smirnova, E. (eds.). Nodes and Networks in Diachronic Construction Grammar. [CAL, Vol. 27]. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 69-103. https://doi.org/10.1075/cal.27.02som

Sommerer, Lotte. (2020). Why we avoid the ‘Multiple Inheritance’ Issue in Usage-based Cognitive Construction Grammar. Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 34, 320-331. https://doi.org/10.1075/bjl.00056.som

Sommerer, Lotte. (2019). Review of Van Goethem, Kristel, Muriel Norde, Evie Coussé & Gudrun Vanderbauwhede (eds.). (2018). Category Change from a Constructional Perspective. [Constructional Approaches to Language, Vol. 20]. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins. In Constructions and Frames,11(2), 317-333.

Baumann, Andreas & Sommerer, Lotte. (2018). Linguistic diversification as a long-term effect of asymmetric priming: an adaptive dynamic approach. Language Dynamics and Change,8(2), 253-296.

Sommerer, Lotte. (2016). Investigating the acquisition of perfective aspect in the German EFL classroom – a constructional sketch. In Lindner, D.; Beer R.; Gabriel, S. & Krobath, T. (eds.). Dialog Forschung. Forschungsband 2015. [Schriften der Kirchlichen Pädagogischen Hochschule Wien/Krems, Band 12]. Wien/Berlin: LIT VERLAG.

Sommerer, Lotte. (2015). The influence of constructions in grammaticalization: revisiting category emergence and the development of the definite article in English. In Barðdal, J.; Smirnova, E.; Sommerer, L. & Gildea, S. (eds.). Diachronic Construction Grammar. [CAL, Vol. 18]. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 107-138. https://doi.org/10.1075/cal.18.04som

Sommerer, Lotte. (2012a). Analogical Transfer in Old English syntax. Article emergence caused by pattern recognition and transfer. In Schendl, H.; Markus, M. & Coelsch-Foisner, S. (eds.). Transfer in English Studies. [Austrian Studies in English, Vol. 100]. Vienna: Braunmüller, 259-285.

Sommerer, Lotte. (2012b). Investigating the emergence of the definite article in Old English: about categorization, gradualness and constructions. Folia Linguistica Historica, 33, 175-213.

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

2024

Plenary at the 10^th DGKL, 4-6 September 2024, Osnabrück, Germany. Talk: Of outlaws and oddballs: non-canonical constructions in language change

ICCG 13 (International Conference on Construction Grammar).  26-28 August 2024, Göteborg, Sweden. Paper (together with Alice Bllumenthal-Drame): Testing constructionhood and the cognitive realism of mid-level abstractions in English possessive constructions

SLE 57. 21 ‒ 24 August 2024, Helsinki, Finnland Workshop organization (together Axel Bohmann): Construction Grammar meets Sociolinguistics

2023

Invited Speaker to KU Leuven lecture series, 12 December, 2023 Leuven, Belgium. Paper: go to church or die in prison: PPs with bare institutional nouns in the history of English

ICLC 16 (International Cognitive Linguistics Conference). 7 ‒ 11 August 2023, Düsseldorf, Germany. Paper (together with Florent Perek): Definiteness and verb meaning: Investigating the definiteness profile of English verbs

ICCG 12 (International Conference on Construction Grammar). 19 ‒ 21 May 2023, Prag, Czech Republic Paper: If that’s what she said, then that’s what she said – A usage-based, constructional analysis of pleonastic conditionals in English

Invited Speaker to Dahlem lecture series at Freie Universität Berlin, 31 January, 2023 Berlin, Germany. Paper: If that’s what she said, then that’s what she said: a usage-based, constructional analysis of pleonastic conditionals’

2022

BICLCE 9 (Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English). 23 ‒ 25 September 2022, Ljubljana, Slowenia (accepted to workshop ‘Today’s innovations, tomorrow’s conventions’ by David Lorenz & David Tizón-Couto). Paper: Investigating some as an indefinite article in PDE

ICHL25 (International Conference on Historical Linguistics). 1 – 5 August 2022, Oxford, UK. Paper (together with Eva Zehentner): go to church or die in prison: tracing V-PP combinations with bare institutional nouns in the history of English

ICAME 43, (Annual Conference of the International Computer Archive for Modern and Medieval English), Cambridge, UK. Paper (together with Florent Perek): Direct object definiteness and verb meaning: a corpus-based investigation

DGKL9 (9th International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics) 1 – 4 March 2022, Erfurt, Germany. Paper: Not as tight a family: A constructional network sketch of BIG MESS constructions in English

2021

ICCG 11 (11th International Conference on Construction Grammar). 18 – 20 August 2021, Antwerpen, Belgium (accepted to workshop ‘Paradigmatic relations in the constructicon’ by Martin Hilpert & Jenny Audring). Paper: Of absent mothers and strong sisters: Local differences in constructional network architecture

ICEHL 21 (International Conference on English Historical Linguistics). 7 – 11 June 2021, Leiden, Belgium. Paper: So great a desire – a diachronic investigation of the BIG MESS construction

Invited Speaker to Department of Languages and Literatures, Research Group, University of Gothenburg, 21 January 2021, Gothenburg, Sweden. Paper: Of absent mothers and peculiar daughters – the constructional network of English NPN constructions

2020

7th UK CLC (Cognitive Linguistics Conference). 27 – 30 July 2020, Birmingham, UK. Paper: How important a piece of the puzzle? A usage-based investigation of the BIG MESS construction

Invited Speaker to the Cognitive Research Group, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh, 3 September 2020, Edinburgh, UK. Paper: Open questions in Diachronic Construction Grammar

2019

SLE 52 (Societa Linguistica Europaea). 21 ‒ 24 September 2019, Leipzig, Germany. Paper: How to model paradigmatic knowledge in DCxG: the case of Middle English som(e) and its development into an indefinite article (invited to workshop by Gabriele Diewald)

ICLC 15 (International Cognitive Linguistics Conference). 6 – 11 August 2019, Nishinomiya, Japan. Paper a): Let’s talk face to face about N-P-N constructions in Contemporary American English. Paper b) (together with Eva Zehentner): A convent of sisters without a mother superior? – Discussing abstract nodes in the constructional network

ENP2019. 11 – 13 July 2019, Vienna, Austria. Workshop organization (together with Evelien Keizer): The English Noun Phrase 2019: synchronic and diachronic perspectives. Paper: Let’s talk face to face about N-P-N constructions in English

ICOME 11 (International Conference on Middle English). 5 – 8 February 2019, Florence, Italy. Paper (together with Klaus Hofmann): Some thoughts on some functions of som(e) in Middle English

Invited speaker to the Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Manchester: 11 – 13 February 2019, Manchester, UK. Talk a): A constructional perspective on the development of the English article system’b) master class: An introduction to Usage-based Cognitive Construction Grammar

Invited speaker to the Department of Language and Linguistic Science, University of York. 13 – 15 February 2019, York, UK. Talk: Constructionalization and network reconfiguration: investigating OE NP ecology and the development of the article system

2018

Invited speaker to the Department of English: University of Neuchatel. 27– 30. September 2018, Neuchatel, Switzerland. Talk: Article Emergence in Old English: Cognitive Factors in Language Change.

ICCG 10 (10th International Conference on Construction Grammar). 16 – 18 July 2018, Paris, France. Paper: Constructional death – investigating the demise of Poss+Dem constructions in Old English

2017

SLE 50. 10 ‒ 13 September 2017, Zürich, Switzerland. Workshop organization (together with Elena Smirnova): Advances in Diachronic Construction Grammar – debating theoretical tenets and open questions

ICHL 23 (International Conference on Historical Linguistics). 31 July ‒ 4 August 2017, San Antonio, Texas, USA. Paper: Constructionalization and constructional competition: investigating Old English NP ecology and the development of the indefinite article

ICLC 14 (International Cognitive Linguistics Conference). 10 ‒ 14 July 2017, Tartu, Estonia. Paper a): Present perfect constructions and their marginalization in learner language: a constructionist approach to foreign language teaching. Paper b) (together with Andreas Baumann):  Layering as a long-term effect of asymmetric priming