Publications
In Preparation & Submitted
[JP 2] in prep. Schweinberger, Martin. On the L1-acquisition of variation in adjective amplification. International Journal of English Linguistics. Prospective submission 11/2026.
[JP 1] in prep. Schweinberger, Martin and Michael Haugh. Introducing the Language Technology and Data Analysis Laboratory (LADAL). Language Resources and Evaluation. Prospective submission 10/2026. (SJR: Q1)
[JS 5] submitted. Visioni, Yon and Martin Schweinberger. Listener Perceptions of Intelligibility and Critical Pronunciation Features in Multilingual Contexts. Submitted 3/2026 to Australian Review of Applied Linguistics.
[JS 4] submitted. Putensen, Lara and Martin Schweinberger. Pop Goes Profanity: Vulgarity Trends in English Chart Hits From 2000 to 2024. Submitted 2/2026 to Journal of Language and Pop Culture.
[JS 3] submitted. Schweinberger, Martin and Amir Sheikhan. A corpus-based analysis of address terms by Australian, British, and United States Twitter users. World Englishes. Submitted 10/2025.
[JS 2] submitted. Schweinberger, Martin, Michael Haugh, Mikko Laitinen, et al. F%$# Twitter. A corpus-based analysis of vulgar language on Twitter. Submitted 11/4/2025 to Corpora.
[JS 1] submitted. Schweinberger, Martin, Michael Haugh, Mikko Laitinen, et al. Swearing online: Exploring dimensions of variability in born-digital data. Submitted 27/3/2025 to Digital Scholarship in the Humanities.
[JR 1] under revision. Schweinberger, Martin. Priming in Language Change – A corpus-based analysis of adjective amplification in New Zealand English. Submitted 12/2/2020 to English Language and Linguistics. (SJR: Q1)
Journal Articles (Peer-Reviewed)
23. Schweinberger, Martin, Paula Rautionaho, and Kate Burridge. 2026. Vulgarity and Bad Language in Online and Public Discourse: An Introduction. Lingua 334: 104133. (SJR: Q1) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2026.104133
22. Schweinberger, Martin and Michael Haugh. 2025. Reproducibility and transparency in interpretive corpus pragmatics. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. (SJR: Q1)
21. Schweinberger, Martin and Michael Haugh. 2025. Reproducibility, replicability, and robustness in corpus linguistics. An introduction. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. (SJR: Q1)
20. Schweinberger, Martin and Kate Burridge. 2025. Vulgarity in Online Discourse around the English-Speaking World. Lingua 321: 103946. (SJR: Q1)
19. Schweinberger, Martin. 2024. Seeded topic modeling as a more appropriate alternative to unsupervised standard topic models. Discourse Studies 27(4): 675–678.
18. Bednarek, Monika, Martin Schweinberger and Kelvin Lee. 2024. Corpus-based discourse analysis: From meta-reflection to accountability. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory. (SJR: Q1)
17. Schweinberger, Martin. 2024. A corpus-based analysis of adjective amplification in Hong Kong, Indian, and Philippine English. World Englishes. (SJR: Q1)
16. Schweinberger, Martin. 2023. On the L1-acquisition of pragmatics of discourse like. Functions of Language 30(3): 255–286.
15. Crosthwaite, Peter, Sulistya Ningrum, and Martin Schweinberger. 2022. Research Trends in Corpus Linguistics: A Bibliometric Analysis. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 28(3): 344–377.
14. Crosthwaite, Peter, Alicia Gazmuri Sanhueza, and Martin Schweinberger. 2021. Training disciplinary genre awareness through blended learning. Journal of English for Academic Purposes 53(1): 101021.
13. Schweinberger, Martin, Michael Haugh, and Sam Hames. 2021. Analysing discourse around COVID-19 in the Australian Twittersphere. Big Data & Society 8(1).
12. Schweinberger, Martin. 2021. Ongoing change in the Australian English amplifier system. Australian Journal of Linguistics 41(2): 1–29.
11. Rühlemann, Christoph, and Martin Schweinberger. 2021. Which word gets the nuclear stress in a turn-at-talk? Journal of Pragmatics 178: 426–443.
10. Crosthwaite, Peter, L. Luciana, and Martin Schweinberger. 2021. Voices from the periphery. Applied Corpus Linguistics 1(1).
9. Schweinberger, Martin. 2021. On historical developments in the Irish English intensifier system. Anglistik 32(1): 139–158.
8. Schweinberger, Martin. 2020. A corpus-based analysis of differences in the use of very for adjective amplification among native speakers and learners of English. International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 6(2): 163–192.
7. Crosthwaite, Peter, Naomi Stroch, and Martin Schweinberger. 2020. Less is more? The impact of written corrective feedback. Journal of Second Language Writing 49.
6. Schweinberger, Martin. 2020. How Learner Corpus-Research can inform language learning and teaching. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 43(2): 195–217.
5. Schweinberger, Martin. 2020. Speech-unit final like in Irish English. English World Wide 41(1): 89–117.
4. Schweinberger, Martin. 2019. The Sociolinguistics of Emotional Language. Corpus Pragmatics 3(4): 327–361.
3. Schweinberger, Martin. 2018. Swearing in Irish English. Lingua 209: 1–20.
2. Schweinberger, Martin. 2018. The discourse particle eh in New Zealand English. Australian Journal of Linguistics 38(3): 395–420.
1. Siemund, Peter, Monika Edith Schulz and Martin Schweinberger. 2014. Studying the linguistic ecology of Singapore. World Englishes 33(3): 340–362.
Book Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
22. Schweinberger, Martin. in print. Reproducibility in Corpus Linguistics. In Mahlberg and Collins (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (3rd Edition).
21. Schweinberger, Martin and Howard Luo. in print. A Corpus-Based Analysis of General Extenders in Irish English. John Benjamins.
20. Schweinberger, Martin. 2025. Implications of the Replication Crisis for Corpus Linguistics. In Laitinen and Rautionaho (Eds.), Data-intensive Investigations of English, 258–286. Cambridge University Press.
19. Crosthwaite, Peter and Martin Schweinberger. 2025. Corpora and instructed second language acquisition. In Loewen et al. (Eds.), Technology and instructed second language acquisition, 115–138. John Benjamins.
18. Schweinberger, Martin and Yuki Komiya. 2024. A corpus-based comparative acoustic analysis of target-like vowel production. In Buschfeld et al. (Eds.), Crossing Boundaries through Corpora, 41–61. John Benjamins.
17. Schweinberger, Martin and Patricia Ronan. 2024. Boring much? Semantic determinants of constructional attraction in Irish English. In Schweinberger and Ronan (Eds.), Socio-pragmatic variation in Ireland and Scotland, 107–130. De Gruyter.
16. Schweinberger, Martin and Patricia Ronan. 2024. Concluding remarks and future directions. In Schweinberger and Ronan (Eds.), Socio-Pragmatic Variation in Ireland, 235–240. De Gruyter.
15. Ronan, Patricia and Martin Schweinberger. 2024. An introduction to sociopragmatic variation. De Gruyter.
14. Schweinberger, Martin. 2024. When Natural Language Processing Meets Corpus Linguistics. In Amador-Moreno et al. (Eds.), Digitally-Assisted Historical English Linguistics, 73–88. Routledge.
13. Schweinberger, Martin and Yuki Komiya. 2022. A corpus-based computational analysis of high-front and -back vowel production. In Billington (Ed.), Proceedings of SST 2022, 196–200. (pdf)
12. Schweinberger, Martin. 2022. Absolutely fantastic and really, really good – Language Variation and Change in Irish English. In Amador-Moreno and Lucek (Eds.), Expanding the Landscapes of Irish English, 129–142. Routledge.
11. Schweinberger, Martin. 2021. On the waning of forms. In Kranich and Breban (Eds.), Lost in change, 235–260. John Benjamins.
10. Schweinberger, Martin. 2020. Using intensifier-adjective collocations to determine mechanisms of change. In Cermakova and Mala (Eds.), Variation in Time and Space, 231–256. De Gruyter.
9. Schweinberger, Martin. 2020. Using Semantic Vector Space Models to investigate lexical replacement. In Asahi (Ed.), Proceedings of Methods XVI, 241–249. Peter Lang.
8. Schweinberger, Martin. 2020. Analyzing change in the American English amplifier system. In Rautionaho et al. (Eds.), Corpora and the Changing Society, 223–249. John Benjamins.
7. Schweinberger, Martin. 2015. A comparative study of the pragmatic marker like in Irish English and south-eastern varieties of British English. In Amador-Moreno et al. (Eds.), Pragmatic Markers in Irish English, 114–134. John Benjamins.
6. Schweinberger, Martin. 2014. Frequency, dispersion and register variation of selected discourse-pragmatic particles in Singapore English. In Koll-Stobbe and Knospe (Eds.), Language Contact Around the Globe, 259–273. Lang.
5. Schweinberger, Martin. 2013. A sociolinguistics analysis of discourse marker LIKE in Northern Ireland. In Bieswanger and Koll-Stobbe (Eds.), New Approaches to the Analysis of Linguistic Variability, 13–39. Lang.
4. Schweinberger, Martin and Melanie Burmeister. 2013. A corpus-based study of language internal and language external determinates of non-standard uses of noun phrase structures. In Schlaak and Hennemann (Eds.), Korpuslinguistische Untersuchungen, 131–149. Frank und Timme.
3. Schweinberger, Martin. 2012. The discourse marker LIKE in Irish English. In Migge and Ni Chiosain (Eds.), New Perspectives on Irish English, 179–201. John Benjamins.
2. Siemund, Peter, Georg Maier, and Martin Schweinberger. 2012. Reflexives and Self-forms across Varieties of English. In Hickey (Ed.), Areal features of the Anglophone World, 409–438. Mouton de Gruyter.
1. Siemund, Peter, Georg Maier, and Martin Schweinberger. 2009. Towards a more fine-grained analysis of the areal distributions of non-standard features of English. In Pentitilä and Paulasto (Eds.), Language Contacts Meet English Dialects, 19–45. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Edited Volumes & Issues
[EP 4] to appear 2026. Lensch, Anke, Hanna Bruns, and Martin Schweinberger. Address Terms in World Englishes. Special Issue of World Englishes.
[EP 3] 2025/26. Schweinberger, Martin, Paula Rautionaho, and Kate Burridge. Bad Language and Vulgarity Online and in Public Discourse. Special Issue of Lingua.
[EP 2] Schweinberger, Martin and Michael Haugh. 2025. Reproducibility, Replication and Robustness in Corpus Linguistics. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 30(2).
[ES 1] Schweinberger, Martin and Patricia Ronan. 2024. Socio-pragmatic variation in Ireland and Scotland. De Gruyter.
Monographs
[BP 2] in prep. Data-Intensive Pragmatics. Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Elements in Pragmatics series).
[BP 1] in prep. A Practical Introduction to Distant Reading and Text Analysis. Edinburgh University Press. (prospective submission 12/2025)
1. Schweinberger, Martin. 2014. The discourse marker LIKE: a corpus-based analysis of selected varieties of English. Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg. (PhD dissertation)
Miscellaneous
Schweinberger, Martin & Kate Burridge. 12 June 2025. 201 ways to say ‘fuck’: what 1.7 billion words of online text shows about how the world swears. The Conversation.
(last updated 2024/10/11)