Tanguy Dubois
List of John Benjamins publications in which Tanguy Dubois is involved.
2026 The relative complexity of alternation phenomena in spoken English as a Foreign Language International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 12:1, pp. 65–93 | Article
While the assumption within theoretical linguistics is that alternation phenomena (e.g., “everyone” vs. “everybody”) lead to redundant complexity because they introduce multiple ways of saying the same thing, this assumption has not yet been tested empirically for EFL learners. To fill this gap,… read more
2025 Future-time reference in spoken EFL: More complex than in ENL? Journal of Second Language Studies 8:1, pp. 89–118 | Article
Previous research has given much attention to how native speakers of English and, to a lesser extent, speakers of World Englishes, choose between will and be going to to talk about the future. There is, however, a lack of research investigating how learners of English as a Foreign Language… read more
2023 The Complexity Principle and lexical complexity in the English and Dutch dative alternation Ditransitives in Germanic Languages: Synchronic and diachronic aspects, Zehentner, Eva, Melanie Röthlisberger and Timothy Colleman (eds.), pp. 325–364 | Chapter
This study investigates the effects of lexical complexity on the choice of dative alternants in English and Dutch. The lexical complexity of a given word is operationalized as being proportional to how quickly speakers can retrieve it from their mental lexicon, for which I consult the databases… read more
