Dr Jack Grieve

Qualifications & Education

• BA in Linguistics (Simon Fraser University)
  
• MA in Linguistics (Simon Fraser University)
  
• PhD in Applied Linguistics (Northern Arizona University
  

Teaching 2012-13

• Contexts, Modes and Media
  
• Grammar and Meaning
  
• Language in Society
  
• Language in the News Media
  
• Introduction to Linguistics
  
• Written Language in the Legal System
  

Research Interests

• Authorship Attribution
  
• Forensic Linguistics
  
• Functional Linguistics
  
• Quantitative Corpus Linguistics
  
• Regional Dialectology
  
• Variationist Sociolinguistics
  

Membership in Professional Bodies

• American Dialect Society
  
• Linguistic Society of America
  
• International Association of Forensic Linguists
  

Recent Publications

Jack Grieve. Forthcoming. A comparison of statistical methods for the aggregation of regional linguistic variation. In Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, Bernhard Walchli (editors), Aggregating Dialectology and Typology: Linguistic Variation in Text and Speech, Within and Across Languages. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.

Jack Grieve. Forthcoming. A statistical comparison of regional phonetic and lexical variation in American English. Literary and Linguistic Computing.

Jack Grieve. 2012. A statistical analysis of regional variation in adverb position in a corpus of written Standard American English. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 8: 39-72.

Jack Grieve. 2011. A regional analysis of contraction rate in written Standard American English. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 16: 514-546.

Jack Grieve, Dirk Speelman and Dirk Geeraerts. 2011. A statistical method for the identification and aggregation of regional linguistic variation. Language Variation and Change 23: 193-221.

Jack Grieve, Douglas Biber, Eric Friginal and Tatiana Nekrasova. 2010. Variation among blog text types: A multi-dimensional analysis. In Alexander Mehler, Serge Sharoff and Marina Santini (editors), Genres on the Web: Corpus Studies and Computational Models. New York: Springer-Verlag. 303-322.

Douglas Biber, Jack Grieve and Gina Iberri-Shea. 2010. Noun phrase modification. In Rohdenburg, Gunter Rohdenburg and Julia Schluter (editors) One Language, Two Grammars? Differences between British and American English. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 182-193.

Jack Grieve. 2007. Quantitative authorship attribution: an evaluation of techniques. Literary and Linguistic Computing 22: 251-270.