Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages Department of German and Dutch Raised Faculty Building University of Cambridge Sidgwick Avenue Cambridge CB3 9DA United Kingdom
Alan Scott is a linguist specialising in the variation that occurs in everyday language use, particularly the distribution of synonymous standard and non-standard constructions. This was the topic of his recent monograph The Genitive Case in Dutch and German: A Study of Morphosyntactic Change in Codified Languages, published in 2014 by Brill.
Alan Scott’s teaching interests include German linguistics, historical linguistics (principally German and Dutch) and language use in social media.
- the interaction between standardisation/prescription and language change
- language use in egodocuments such as personal letters, journals and social media
- usage-based theories of linguistics
- the interface between sociolinguistics and morphology and syntax
The development of the genitive case in Dutch and German (Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellowship project)
Scott, Alan K. 2015. ‘Sprachliche Variation im digitalen Zeitalter und ihre Relevanz für den DaF-Unterricht’. Deutsch als Fremdsprache 3/15: 164-171.
Scott, Alan K. 2014. The Genitive Case in Dutch and German: A Study of Morphosyntactic Change in Codified Languages. Leiden: Brill.
Scott, Alan K. 2014. ‘The survival and use of case morphology in Modern Dutch’. In Ronny Boogaart, Timothy Colleman & Gijsbert Rutten (eds.). Extending the Scope of Construction Grammar, 107-137. Berlin: de Gruyter.
Börjars, Kersti, David Denison & Alan K. Scott (eds.). 2013. Morphosyntactic Categories and the Expression of Possession. (Linguistik Aktuell 199). Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Scott, Alan K. 2012. ‘A constructionist account of the Modern Dutch adnominal genitive’. In Ferenc Kiefer, Mária Ladányi & Péter Siptár (eds.). Current Issues in Morphological Theory: (Ir)Regularity, Analogy and Frequency. Selected Papers from the 14th International Morphology Meeting, Budapest, 13-16 May 2010, 83-103. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Scott, Alan K. 2011. ‘Everyday language in the spotlight: The decline of the genitive case’. German as a Foreign Language 1/2011: 53-70.
Scott, Alan K. 2011. ‘The position of the genitive case in present-day Dutch’. Word Structure 4 (1): 104-135.
Scott, Alan K. 2010. ‘Accounting for the semantic extension of derived action nouns’. Journal of Linguistics 46: 711-734.
Denison, David, Alan K. Scott & Kersti Börjars. 2010. ‘The real distribution of the English “group genitive”’. Studies in Language 34 (3): 532-564.
Scott, Alan K. 2009. ‘Feminine gender marking using female-marking suffixes in Standard Dutch’. In Cornips, Leonie & Gunther de Vogelaer (eds.). Perspectieven op het genus in het Nederlands (Taal en Tongval Themanummer 22), 165-187.
Scott, Alan K. 2009. ‘Denominales -er: Ein Suffix lebt wieder auf’. Zeitschrift für Germanistische Linguistik 37: 221-235.
Scott, Alan K. 2009. ‘The marking of gender agreement using derivational affixes in German and Dutch’. Journal of Germanic Linguistics 21 (1): 37-89.
Scott, Alan K. 2007. ‘Englische Wortfamilien im Deutschen’. Deutsche Sprache 35 (2): 119-137.
Scott, Alan K. 2006. ‘Das Suffix -In: Eine Ergänzung zum deutschen Wortbildungssystem’. Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik 73 (2): 161-175.
Scott, Alan K. 2006. ‘Land der DichterInnen und DenkerInnen? A linguistic analysis of the controversial suffix -In’. German as a Foreign Language 2/2006: 63-80
