Phd in English linguistics. Research within corpus linguistics, language change and diachronic linguistics.
My research groups
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Centre of Language for Specific Purposes Centre of Language for Specific Purposes (CLSP) gathers researchers from the departments of Language and Swedish. Our linguistic and multilingual environment…
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Data Intensive Digital Humanities The research area Data Intensive Digital Humanities within Linnaeus University Centre for Data Intensive Sciences and Applications (DISA) is a network that brings…
Publications
Selected publications
- Lakaw, A. (2024). Agreement with collective nouns : Diachronic corpus studies of American and British English. Doctoral Thesis. Växjö, Linnaeus University Press. 304.
Article in journal (Refereed)
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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 (11). 1038-1056.
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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.
Status: Published
Article, book review (Refereed)
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Lakaw, A. (2022). Merja Kytö and Erik Smitterberg (eds.), Late Modern English: Novel encounters : Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2020. Pp. vii + 359. ISBN 9789027205087. English Language and Linguistics. Cambridge University Press. 26 (2). 443-449.
Status: Published
Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other academic)
- Lakaw, A. (2024). Agreement with collective nouns : Diachronic corpus studies of American and British English. Doctoral Thesis. Växjö, Linnaeus University Press. 304.
Chapter in book (Refereed)
- Laitinen, M., Levin, M., Lakaw, A. (2019). Charting New Sources of elf Data : A Multi-Genre Corpus Approach. From Data to Evidence in English Language Research. Leiden, Brill Academic Publishers. 326-350.
- 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.
Chapter in book (Other academic)
- Lakaw, A. (2020). “Here comes the police! Here they come!” : On the History of a Collective (?) Noun. Doing Digital Humanities : Concepts, Approaches, Cases. Växjö, Linnaeus University Press. 241-257.
Conference paper (Refereed)
- Lakaw, A., Laitinen, M. (2025). Liverpool were superior tonight : Variation and change of verbal agreement patterns in L2 idiolects. 8th Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English : Book of abstracts. 36-36.
- Lakaw, A. (2018). Prescriptive influences on agreement with collective nouns in 19th and early 20th-century American English. Presented at 20th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Edinburgh, 27-31 August, 2018.
- Lakaw, A. (2018). “Here comes the police! Here they come!” : A diachronic corpus-based sociolinguistic study on agreement with collective nouns. .
- 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. (2017). Prescriptive Influences on Agreement with Collective Nouns in Early 20th-century American English. LMEC 6 : Book of Abstracts. 20-21.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Conference paper (Other academic)
- Laitinen, M., Tyrkkö, J., Levin, M., Lakaw, A., Fatemi, M., et al. (2019). Americanization in the Nordic Contexts on Twitter. Presented at ICAME 40 2019. Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
- Laitinen, M., Levin, M., Lakaw, A. (2014). Ongoing grammatical change and the new Englishes : Towards a set of corpora of English uses in the expanding circle. .