Mikko HöglundSenior Lecturer
About me
Mikko Höglund has studied English and linguistics at the University of Tampere, Finland, and he received his PhD in English Philology in 2014. Höglund has also studied linguistics at the University of Oregon in 2010-11.
Höglund’s main research interests are in the fields of syntax and semantics (Construction Grammar), grammatical variation in recent centuries in BrE and AmE, and corpus-based research.
Currently on leave of absence (2022-2023).
Publications
A selection from Stockholm University publication database
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Changes in transitivity and reflexive uses of sit (me/myself down) in Early and Late Modern English
2020. Turo Vartiainen, Mikko Höglund. Corpora and the Changing Society, 277-302
ChapterThis chapter seeks to establish if the Transitivity Hypothesis (Hopper & Thompson 1980) can explain the variation in the use of two reflexive strategies with the verb sit in Early Modern English (e.g. I sat me down/I sat myself down) and the verb’s subsequent transitivization (e.g. he sat me down). By studying data from large historical corpora, we will re-evaluate the results of earlier research and establish why sit continued to be used with the simple reflexive strategy (i.e. with object pronouns) until the Late Modern period. In our analysis of the transitivization of sit (down), we focus on both micro-level semantic and syntactic factors and more general developments that have supported the transitivization of verbs in Late Modern English.
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HOW TO MAKE NEW USE OF EXISTING RESOURCES
2020. Turo Vartiainen, Mikko Höglund. American Speech 95 (4), 408-440
ArticleThis article discusses the history and regional variation of the complex preposition off of (e.g., I got off of the bus). The study is intended to uncover detailed information about the use of the form from Early Modern to Present-Day English by examining a variety of linguistic corpora and databases from different perspectives. In addition to charting the history and present-day variation of off of, the study will make a methodological contribution to historical dialectology by showing that there are extensive, severely underused resources that can reveal valuable information about the geographical variation of English even if they were not originally designed for that purpose. Most crucially, the article introduces a way to investigate Early Modern English from the perspective of regional variation, thus paving the way for future research in a field that has been extremely challenging to study in the past.
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Changing Structures
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Complementation of ashameds - diachrony and determinants of variation
2018. Mikko Höglund. Changing Structures, 89-107
ChapterThe present chapter will contribute to the area of English complementation studies by investigating the adjective ashamed. The study focuses on the diachronic development of the use of ashamed during the past two centuries in different environments, and the variation between two rivalling non-finite complements, to infinitive and of -ing. The data was collected from COHA and COCA. The results show that since the 1870s ashamed has been used less and less, and that it occurs nowadays regularly without a complement whereas in the 19th century the to infinitive complement was common. The of -ing complement is not used much, but some contexts such as negation or copula in the complement clause were observed to attract this complement type.
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Corpus of Early American Literature
2016. Mikko Höglund, Kaj Syrjänen. ICAME Journal/International Computer Archive of Modern English 40, 17-38
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A Cross-Linguistic Perspective on Complementation in the Tough Construction
2015. Jukka Havu, Mikko Höglund. Perspectives on Complementation, 52-74
ChapterIn recent years the increasing availability of large electronic corpora has led to a methodological shift in linguistics from intuition-based research to work that utilises electronic corpora as a source of data. This shift has given rise to a new perspective on work on complementation. This book presents the latest work in the field of complementation studies. Leading scholars and upcoming researchers in the area approac… show moreh complementation from various perspectives and different frameworks, such as Cognitive Grammar and construction grammars, to offer a broad survey of the field and provide thought-provoking reading accessible to anyone interested in complementation, novice or expert.
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Introduction
2015. Mikko Höglund. Perspectives on Complementation, 1-6
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Perspectives on Complementation
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Book (ed)In recent years the increasing availability of large electronic corpora has led to a methodological shift in linguistics from intuition-based research to work that utilises electronic corpora as a source of data. This shift has given rise to a new perspective on work on complementation. This book presents the latest work in the field of complementation studies. Leading scholars and upcoming researchers in the area approach complementation from various perspectives and different frameworks, such as Cognitive Grammar and construction grammars, to offer a broad survey of the field and provide thought-provoking reading accessible to anyone interested in complementation, novice or expert.
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Active and passive infinitive, ambiguity and non-canonical subject with ready
2014. Mikko Höglund. Corpus interrogation and grammatical patterns, 239-262
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Word and Image: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches
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“Self-discipline strategies were easy to design but difficult to adhere to”
2014. Mikko Höglund.
Thesis (Doc)
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