Michael Percillier

Linguist

Publications

My publications are listed below in chronological order, from newest to oldest. For a thematic grouping by project, please consult my Research section. My publications are also listed on my ORCID and Google Scholar profiles. Most of my publications are also openly available as accepted manuscripts from my ResearchGate and Academia.edu profiles. Further below, you will also find a list of the talks I have presented.

Buschfeld, Sarah & Michael Percillier. 2025. World Englishes and Second Language Acquisition: Teaching English as an international language. In Ali Fuad Selvi & Nicola Galloway (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Teaching English as an International Language, 63–76. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003203261-6
Percillier, Michael, Yela Schauwecker, Achim Stein & Carola Trips. 2024. Carrying Verbs Across the Channel: Modelling Change in Bilingual Medieval England. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-50806-6
Percillier, Michael & Yela Schauwecker. 2024. Cognitive mechanisms driving (contact-induced) language change: introduction to the special issue. Linguistics Vanguard 10(s2). 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2023-0164
Percillier, Michael. 2024. The Outer and Expanding Circles in Southeast Asia. In Andrew J. Moody (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Southeast Asian Englishes, 15–33. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192855282.013.1
Percillier, Michael. 2022. Adapting the Dynamic Model to historical linguistics: Case studies on the Middle English and Anglo-Norman contact situation. In Bettelou Los, Chris Cummins, Lisa Gotthard, Alpo Honkapohja & Benjamin Molineaux (eds.), English Historical Linguistics: Historical English in Contact (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 359), 5–33. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.359.02per
Percillier, Michael & Carola Trips. 2020. Lemmatising verbs in Middle English Corpora: The benefit of enriching the Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Middle English 2 (PPCME2), the Parsed Corpus of Middle English Poetry (PCMEP), and a Parsed Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English (PLAEME). In Proceedings of the 12th language resources and evaluation conference, 7170–7178. Marseille, France: European Language Resources Association. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.lrec-1.886
Percillier, Michael. 2020. Allostructions, homostructions or a constructional family? Changes in the network of secondary predicate constructions in Middle English. In Lotte Sommerer & Elena Smirnova (eds.), Nodes and Networks in Diachronic Construction Grammar (Constructional Approaches to Language 27), 214–242. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/cal.27.06per
Percillier, Michael. 2020. A variationist approach to the spread of emergent features in Middle English. Recherches Anglaises et Nord Américaines 53. 23–36.
Percillier, Michael. 2019. Dynamic modelling of medieval language contact: The case of Anglo-Norman and Middle English. In Roger Schöntag & Stephanie Massicot (eds.), Diachrone Migrationslinguistik: Mehrsprachigkeit in historischen Sprachkontaktsituationen (Sprache, Mehrsprachigkeit Und Sozialer Wandel 34), 79–99. Berlin: Peter Lang.
Percillier, Michael. 2018. A Toolkit for Lemmatising, Analysing, and Visualising Middle English Data. In Andrew U. Frank, Christine Ivanovic, Francesco Mambrini, Marco Passarotti & Caroline Sporleder (eds.), Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Corpus-Based Research in the Humanities CRH-2 (Gerastree Proceedings), vol. 1, 153–160. Vienna. https://www.oeaw.ac.at/fileadmin/subsites/academiaecorpora/PDF/CRH2.pdf
Percillier, Michael. 2018. The non-standard in writing: A look at West African and Southeast Asian literature. E-rea 15(2). https://doi.org/10.4000/erea.6312
Percillier, Michael & Catherine Paulin. 2017. Postcolonial Literature and World Englishes: A Corpus-Based Approach of Modes of Representation of the Non-Standard in Writing. International Journal of Literary Linguistics 6(1). 1–24. https://doi.org/10.15462/ijll.v6i1.102
Percillier, Michael & Catherine Paulin. 2017. A corpus-based investigation of world Englishes in literature. World Englishes 36(1). 127–147. https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12208
Percillier, Michael. 2017. Creating and Analyzing Literary Corpora. In Shalin Hai-Jew (ed.), Data Analytics in Digital Humanities, 91–118. Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54499-1_4
Percillier, Michael. 2017. Une brève introduction à l’analyse statistique avec R. In Catherine Schnedecker & Angelina Aleksandrova (eds.), Le doctorat en France : mode(s) d’emploi, 205–220. Brussels: Peter Lang.
Schneider, Gerold, Eva Pettersson & Michael Percillier. 2017. Comparing Rule-based and SMT-based Spelling Normalisation for English Historical Texts. In Proceedings of the NoDaLiDa 2017 Workshop on Processing Historical Language, 40–46. Linköping University Electronic Press, Linköpings universitet. http://www.ep.liu.se/ecp/133/008/ecp17133008.pdf
Percillier, Michael. 2016. Verb Lemmatization and Semantic Verb Classes in a Middle English Corpus. In Proceedings of the 13^th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2016), 209–214. https://www.linguistics.rub.de/konvens16/pub/26_konvensproc.pdf
Percillier, Michael. 2016. World Englishes and Second Language Acquisition: Insights from Southeast Asian Englishes (Varieties of English Around the World G58). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/veaw.g58
Percillier, Michael. 2016. Postcolonial and learner Englishes in Southeast Asia: implications for international communication. In Gerhard Leitner, Azirah Hashim & Hans-Georg Wolf (eds.), Communicating with Asia: The Future of English as a Global Language, 135–152. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107477186.010
Percillier, Michael. 2016. Cunning Linguistics: The Semantics of Word Play in South Park. In Kristy Beers Fägersten (ed.), Watching TV With a Linguist, 139–160. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.
Paulin, Catherine & Michael Percillier. 2015. Oral varieties of English in a literary corpus of West African and South East Asian prose (1954–2013): commitment to local identities and catering for foreign readers. Études de Stylistique Anglaise 9(1). 59–79. https://doi.org/10.4000/esa.797
Percillier, Michael. 2015. Non-standard Features of Asian Englishes in Comment Forums of Social News Websites. Recherches Anglaises et Nord Américaines 48. 31–49.

Conference talks

Percillier, Michael. 2025. Addressing survivorship bias in the diachrony of World Englishes: A real-time investigation of local -isms and toponymic variation in British Malaya. Talk presented at the 26th Conference of the International Association for World Englishes, Justus Liebig University Giessen, 27 July.
Trips, Carola & Michael Percillier. 2022. Using annotated corpora and digital methods in historical linguistics. Talk presented at the Mannheim Center for Data Science Academic Speed Dating and Conference, University of Mannheim, 22 September.
Trips, Carola, Achim Stein, Yela Schauwecker & Michael Percillier. 2021. Introduction to the workshop Cognitive Mechanisms driving (contact-induced) language change. Talk presented at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE), online, 31 August.
Percillier, Michael. 2019. Mapping of lemmatisation annotation to multiple Middle English corpora. Talk presented at the workshop (Semi–)automatic retrieval of data from historical corpora at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE), Leipzig University, 23 August.
Percillier, Michael. 2018. Adapting the Dynamic Model to historical linguistics: Case studies on the Middle English and Anglo-Norman contact situation. Talk presented at the 20th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL), University of Edinburgh, 30 August.
Percillier, Michael. 2018. A Toolkit for lemmatising, analysing, and visualising Middle English Data. Talk presented at the 2nd Corpus-based Research in the Humanities Conference (CRH-2), Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, 25 January.
Percillier, Michael. 2017. Contact-induced variation and constructional competition? The case of prepositional secondary predicate constructions in Middle English. Talk presented at the workshop Mehrsprachigkeit und Sprachkontakt im Mittelalter. Syntax und Semantik von Verben at the XXXV. Romanistentag des Deutschen Romanistenverbands (DRV), University of Zurich/Literargymnasium Rämibühl, 10 October.
Percillier, Michael. 2017. Dynamic modelling of medieval language contact: The case of Anglo-Norman and Middle English. Talk presented at the workshop Diachrone Migrationslinguistik. Mehrsprachigkeit in historischen Sprachkontaktsituationen at the XXXV. Romanistentag des Deutschen Romanistenverbands (DRV), University of Zurich/Literargymnasium Rämibühl, 9 October.
Percillier, Michael. 2017. Allostructions and language contact: The case of prepositional secondary predicate constructions in Middle English. Talk presented at the workshop Advances in Diachronic Construction Grammar at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE), University of Zurich, 11 September.
Percillier, Michael. 2016. Verb lemmatization and semantic verb classes in a Middle English corpus. Poster presented at the Konferenz zur Verarbeitung natürlicher Sprache (KONVENS), Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 20 September.
Percillier, Michael & Yela Schauwecker. 2016. Using Beth Levin's verb classes as an approach to investigate systematic semantic change in Middle English verbs of French origin: a case study. Talk presented at the Annual Conference of the Association for French Language Studies (AFLS), Queen's University Belfast, 20 June.
Paulin, Catherine & Michael Percillier. 2015. Oral varieties of English in a literary corpus of West African and Southeast Asian prose (1954--2013): Commitment to local identities and catering for foreign readers. Talk presented at the workshop: Stylistique at the 55ème Congrès de la Socitété des Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supériereur (SAES), Université de Toulon, 5 June.
Paulin, Catherine & Michael Percillier. 2015. Postcolonial literature and World Englishes: Representing the non-standard in writing. Talk presented at Research Agendas in Literary Linguistics, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, 16 April.
Percillier, Michael & Catherine Paulin. 2014. Writing the non-standard: A corpus-based investigation of World Englishes in literature. Talk presented at the 20th Conference of the International Association for World Englishes, Amity University, Noida, National Capital Region Delhi, 18 December.
Percillier, Michael. 2014. Local Englishes, local literatures: representing the non-standard in writing. Talk presented at the workshop Writing in non-standard English at the 12th Conference of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE), Pavol Jozef Šafárik University Košice, 31 August.
Percillier, Michael. 2014. The non-standard in writing: a look at West African and Southeast Asian literature. Talk presented at Margin(s) and Norm(s) in English Language(s), Aix-Marseille Université, 12 April.
Percillier, Michel. 2013. Non-standard Features of Asian Englishes in Comment Forums of Social News Websites. Talk presented at the 17th English in Southeast Asia Conference (ESEA), University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, 6 December.
Percillier, Michael. 2012. Postcolonial and learner Englishes in Southeast Asia: The case of Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. Talk presented at the 18th Conference of the International Association for World Englishes, City University of Hong Kong & Sun Yat-sen University Guangzhou, 6 December.
Percillier, Michael. 2012. Accent unites, syntax divides? Varying degrees of nativisation of English in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. Talk presented at English in Asia's Language Habitats and Europe's Asia Competence, Freie Universität Berlin, 11 May.

Invited talks

Percillier, Michael. 2024. Carrying verbs across the Channel: Methodological issues and case studies on change in bilingual medieval England. Invited talk presented at the Examens- und Forschungskolloquium, Romanische Sprach- und Medienwissenschaft, University of Mannheim, 11 November.
2022. Participation in the panel discussion What Open Science infrastructure and services are missing? at the Open Science Day, University of Mannheim, 10 October.
Percillier. Michael. 2018. A variationist approach to the spread of emergent features in Middle English. Invited talk presented at the Journée d'études: Internal variation. Focus on diamesic variation, University of Strasbourg, 7 December.
Percillier, Michael. 2018. Entwicklung von sekundären Prädikatsstrukturen im Mittelenglischen. Das DFG-Projekt Borrowing of Argument Structure in Contact Situations (BASICS). Invited talk presented at the Forschungskolloquium des Interdisziplinären Zentrums für Dialekte und Sprachvariation (IZD), Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 11 June.
Percillier, Michael & Catherine Paulin. 2015. Writing the non-standard: A corpus-based investigation of World Englishes in literary fiction. Invited talk presented at the Zwischentreffen Geisteswissenschaftlicher Kolleg, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, Mainz, 23 February.